I didn't understand this article at all. It's funny, the author mentions the dunning-kruger effect but I feel like most of the audience of this article will fall into this mental trap of thinking themselves more intelligent that they are (rather, that the article applies to them).<p>Especially the suggestions addressed to self-identifying smart people:<p>> 1. Give your ideas away.<p>> It amazes me how many pious philanthropists give generously to charity but are loath to share the secrets of their success.<p>Maybe I'm naive but I don't think there are a lot of "million dollar ideas" that are just being hoarded and all people have to do is share them<p>> 2. Don’t use your intelligence to tear others down.<p>> Deploying cleverness for one-upmanship, sarcasm, and snark is easy.<p>This has nothing to do with intelligence and everything to do with negativity (and self-esteem, if someone is tearing others down to feel better about themselves).<p>The one thing I found interesting was<p>> the researchers also found a strongly negative association between happiness and vocabulary. To explain this, they offered a hypothesis: People with a large vocabulary “self-select more challenging environments, and as a result may encounter more daily stressors and reduced positive affect.” ... (They talk themselves into misery.)<p>That logic doesn't track for me, I feel like simpler explanations could be be that people fall into a lower level of vocabulary (a more common set of words) as they socialize with a variety of people. Or just office workers and academics broadly seem to be more frequently depressed (my theory is partially the sedentary lifestyle and lack of sun) and they have a larger vocabulary from communicating more through writing than orally.