#585 - Adam Mastroianni - Are Smart People Actually Happier?

<p>Adam Mastroianni is a postdoctoral research scholar at Columbia Business School and a writer whose research focuses on how people perceive and misperceive their social worlds.</p> <p>Does being smart make you happy? Does being dumb make you miserable? Why did the guy who created eugenics also get published in Nature for a revolutionary way to cut a cake? Adam is one of my favourite writers so today I get to ask him all these things.</p> <p>Expect to learn why super smart people can be so stupid, Adam's issue with the productivity approach of eating frogs, whether you can learn arithmetic by smell, why humans misjudge what other people want to talk about, why we forget so many of the things that we've learned, how come it's trendy to call the general public stupid and much more...</p> <p><strong style= "font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;"> Sponsors:</strong></p> <p class="p1">Get 83% discount & 3 months free from Surfshark VPN at <a href= "https://surfshark.deals/MODERNWISDOM"><span class= "s1">https://surfshark.deals/MODERNWISDOM</span></a> (use code MODERNWISDOM)</p> <p class="p1">Get 5 Free Travel Packs, Free Liquid Vitamin D and more from Athletic Greens at <a href= "https://athleticgreens.com/modernwisdom"><span class= "s1">https://athleticgreens.com/modernwisdom</span></a> (discount automatically applied)</p> <p class="p1">Get 20% discount on House Of Macadamias’ nuts at <a href="https://houseofmacadamias.com/modernwisdom"><span class= "s1">https://houseofmacadamias.com/modernwisdom</span></a> (use code MW20)</p> <p class="p1"><strong style= "font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;"> Extra Stuff:</strong></p> <p>Follow Adam's Substack - <a href= "https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/">https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/</a></p> <p>Check out Adam's website - <a href= "https://www.adammastroianni.com