#585 - Adam Mastroianni - Are Smart People Actually Happier?
Feb 4, 2023
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In this engaging conversation, Adam Mastroianni, a postdoctoral research scholar at Columbia Business School, explores the intriguing relationship between intelligence and happiness. He discusses why super smart individuals can struggle with simple problems and challenges the notion that intelligence leads to fulfillment. Adam critiques conventional productivity methods and examines how societal biases shape our understanding of people's capabilities. With humor and insight, he also touches on fascinating connections between sensory experiences and cognition, making for a thought-provoking discussion.
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.
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.
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...