Are Intelligent People More Pessimistic?
No matter how intelligent someone may be, it’s not very helpful if they are miserable. Arguably, there is merit and wisdom in pessimism, but perhaps only when pessimism is used to help us become more reasonably optimistic.
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@spaghettiking7312
September 25, 2025 at 9:24 am
The proper application of pessimism is criticism. That is the purpose of an intellectual.
@thewonderingwageslave
September 25, 2025 at 9:24 am
I read this script in your book. It's well written but my only criticism is that it's far too much of an optimistic view on pessimism offering the read too much hope
@Simo-r4o
September 25, 2025 at 9:24 am
Yes 😔
@kirkroberts3795
September 25, 2025 at 9:24 am
Our lives are built on love we are created through love
@piyalichowdhury4438
September 25, 2025 at 9:24 am
What I find hilariously heartbreaking is that….I've always been inherently pessimistic but no matter in how many ways I think of something might/would go wrong, the reality of it always always always excels it. So, in a way my heart breaks over and over again when I think of the ways things could go wrong and then when it actually goes wrong in worst possible way. So yeah, guess nothing helps neither optimism nor pessimism
@Crospic
September 25, 2025 at 9:24 am
Are intelligent people more pessimistic? Well I mean, pessimists are perhapes a realists if you ask them.
However, there is nothing necessarily smart about intelligence or so called intellectuals because you don't have to be smart in order to be one. They're all around the internet. One mental masturbation after another.
@kevinpassies7305
September 25, 2025 at 9:24 am
Watching this makes me unhappy
happiness is know less the less you know the happier
@theprogressishere_0000
September 25, 2025 at 9:24 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUruHPHKof4&t=449s&ab_channel=Masteryourmind
Pessimism is not about see the bad about everything
@vowmick-tirtho
September 25, 2025 at 9:24 am
I Don't
@FEZEKAMATOTYENI
September 25, 2025 at 9:24 am
Pessimism of intellect, Optimism of will
@wintermatherne2524
September 25, 2025 at 9:24 am
I’d rather be miserable and intelligent than happy and stupid.
@elmvine
September 25, 2025 at 9:24 am
no.
@DoNotImpose
September 25, 2025 at 9:24 am
it would have been better if life on earth never was
@JackNokeJazzCo
September 25, 2025 at 9:24 am
Define intelligence. I get the point to video like this after only a minute and a half and I like it but ‘more intelligent’ it’s like suggesting there are less intelligent interests. There sure are less academic interests but intelligent…..
@ChickpeatheTortie
September 25, 2025 at 9:24 am
I've always been at a loss to understand how anyone can be happy to live on a planet and be the member of a species that brings 70billion animals into existence every year, factory farms them in brutal conditions and then murders them all for the love of flesh – needless to say I hate it here I hate it hate it hate it – its a shithouse – one would have to be psychotic to like it here and view it in nice light
@demitrijones6922
September 25, 2025 at 9:24 am
When inspecting a home, building, car or even a person. You find the things that are wrong with them esp under close examination. The inspector wants to fix the things that are bad not good to try to make it whole. So in one sense its not pessimistic it's optimistic in reverse. They think they can fix things. Lol.
@fdfac
September 25, 2025 at 9:24 am
What about constructs that view pessimism as non-existent?
@GaMTblock
September 25, 2025 at 9:24 am
The last 3 1/2 minutes of this video is powerful stuff
@laniakeadev.2271
September 25, 2025 at 9:24 am
There's no any "Light", at least as you live in some poor country.
@AnonymousReader-z5b
September 25, 2025 at 9:24 am
Kindda disagree a game isn't worth playing just because you know you're gonna win. Sure, it makes winning more rewarding when you didn't know it was gonna happen or when it was harder to achieve it, but I've honestly turned difficulty down on some videogames in order to always win, and still enjoyed them.
@PurpleGoldSwaggg
September 25, 2025 at 9:24 am
The universe, this planet isn't made for us. It's just simple statistics that you're most likely not going to get your way all the time. These are truths most people sadly can't grasp because of their ego!
@historylover3018
September 25, 2025 at 9:24 am
As I've followed the road towards reality, I've always found rocks of pessimism all along the margin of the way. Eventually, I realised that wherever I follow them, they are absolutely leading the right path.
@EastCoastShorts
September 25, 2025 at 9:24 am
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
@lindenstromberg6859
September 25, 2025 at 9:24 am
I don’t think optimism necessarily means foolishly thinking you’re always going to win. It’s more about counting your blessings and focusing on the good, rather than lamenting what you’re missing and focusing on the bad. While I generally consider myself an optimist , I do (ironically) tend to enjoy reading books about characters with the most cringeworthy pessimism and psychological trauma.
I think one of the obvious major differences is how pessimists and optimists view art (books, games, TV, film). Optimists tend to discuss what they like, while pessimists tend to discuss on what they don’t like. In this way, optimists tend to spread positivity, while pessimists spread negativity.
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September 25, 2025 at 9:24 am
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