Summary of Eric Maisel's Why Smart People Hurt

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#1 The challenges that high-ability children face due to their native intelligence being disregarded or even held as a negative are huge. They are bound to grow sad, act out, or sabotage themselves, and they will most likely develop one mental disorder or another.

#2 The language of natural psychology can help us understand how our original personality, formed personality, and available personality are affected by our environment. It can help us think about what has transpired and what is now required of us if we are to reduce our distress.

#3 A child who grows up in an environment that disparages thinking will find himself in the jaws of his society’s work machinery. He will be fit for one sort of job and not another, and he will be aimed into one social class and not another.

#4 The truth is that thinking is not allowed in most societies. It is seen as elitist and effete, and its progressive views are hated. Tyrants hate intellectuals, for intellectuals as a class see tyranny for what it is and can articulate what they see.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 3, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822529632

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Insights on Eric Maisel's Why Smart People Hurt

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 18

Insights from Chapter 19

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The challenges that high-ability children face due to their native intelligence being disregarded or even held as a negative are huge. They are bound to grow sad, act out, or sabotage themselves, and they will most likely develop one mental disorder or another.

#2

The language of natural psychology can help us understand how our original personality, formed personality, and available personality are affected by our environment. It can help us think about what has transpired and what is now required of us if we are to reduce our distress.

#3

A child who grows up in an environment that disparages thinking will find himself in the jaws of his society’s work machinery. He will be fit for one sort of job and not another, and he will be aimed into one social class and not another.

#4

The truth is that thinking is not allowed in most societies. It is seen as elitist and effete, and its progressive views are hated. Tyrants hate intellectuals, for intellectuals as a class see tyranny for what it is and can articulate what they see.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The fact that society has created jobs and professions that don’t allow