High intelligence often comes with heightened pattern recognition. You start noticing social masks, forced conversations, performative friendships, hidden motives, emotional immaturity, and energy that feels draining instead of nourishing. Many highly intelligent people also have more active nervous systems, deeper inner worlds, and lower tolerance for superficial stimulation, so solitude can feel safer than constantly shrinking themselves to fit environments that don't feel aligned.
Is it just me or are in-home libraries the coolest thing? a cozy room lined with shelves of books you've collected, with a big round window in an alcove to sit, sip tea, and read while listening to the rain. that's the life.
if you aren’t vigilant you can come out of med school a worse human being —as the traits that are selected for in the process (hyper-efficiency, a tough outer shell, ability to hyper-compartmentalize etc) are not the traits that make you a good spouse, patient parent etc
Stadiums will be built and completed in 24 hours.
During half time, they'll change the direction the stadium is facing so that the sun doesn't enter the Chinese team's eyes.
turns out, reading voraciously, moving your body, loving people without keeping score, protecting your solitude, chasing nothing but your own growth, and occasionally staying out too late with people who make you laugh until it hurts is not a bad way to build a life.