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title: 'Is being too intellectual a burden?'
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date: '11:51 02/17/2019'
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        - happiness
        - 'meaning of life'
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author: 'Scott Barry Kaufman'
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Not enough research has been done on intellectual giftedness and life satisfaction/meaning in adulthood but [this article](https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/are-intellectuals-suffering-a-crisis-of-meaning/) is thought provoking.