i think i disagree that the more intelligent you are the less happy you are. i think it depends on the form your expectations take and how you deal with fear which doesnt always have a component of intelligence attached to it to be successful attached to defeating fear. i am who i am despite myself so fear shouldnt enter into it. fear can only help understand. same with pain
I get what you're saying but I feel that people that have an ability to see things in a wider context tend to be intellectual and intelligent and therefor tend to perhaps become depressed about how things are. Morrissey touched on it in his interview with Larry King but chose to use the word emotional instead of intellectual or intelligent to describe the reason why he is depressed or have been for a large part of his life.
Some people who online are called white trash tend to be people who just do things without realising or taking note of others around them. For them there is no such thing as being aware of yourself or putting things in relation with other things as these people are just living on from day to day in a way that seem to make them happy.
I think there is no doubt that people who are intellectual and intelligent have a much bigger risk of ending up being depressed about a lot of things in life. On the other hand I think few if any of them would like to be the opposite as there is a worth in being able to analyse yourself and others and many other things in life.
The article touches on fear a lot and I personally do not relate to that at all but I know people who have restricted their lives out of fear of being seen in a certain way and those people are just too aware of who they are and what they look like and come across to other people.
What makes some depressed I suspect is if they dwell too much on things and thankfully I am not at all such a person as I have found that things that have happened tend to get explained later and of course I am always proved right so why bother with irritating people and ideas that dominate the general consensus now as they will all be put in their place some time in the future.
I suspect that people that fall for group pressure are way more likely to become depressed and feel cheated and lost of their own unique way of being. I have always gone my own way and through others that haven't I have realised I gained a lot from doing so and now have a freedom that many others lack. The social media online is full of people who claim that fake people are the worst and of course that comes from people being around other people a lot which will always have a negative side to it if you are not secure in who you are and always feel a need to mirror yourself in those around you.
It is so sad when people spend entire lives trying to get appreciation and have a need to "be seen" as a way to feel that they matter and exist at all. Career people are all full of fear of being someone else that they see as a loser so there is no doubt that most of the people that work do so out of fear and I think that part of the article is the best when it describes how you should imagine that you have lost all the things in your life that make up who you are to others. People need to find their authentic self again and in this day and age I think not many are in touch with that.