If you had a choice to be really “smart” but extremely “unhappy”, what would you choose? What if you had the choice to be “not so smart” but extremely happy! Would you choose that? Some people would rather be “smart” than happy. This is unfortunate because, usually, we find out that they weren’t really that smart to begin with. In fact, many people believe that happiness is just for “dummies”. They might tell you that anybody with half a brain can see that the world is full of lots of problems and there really isn’t any reason to be incredibly “happy” about anything. Isn’t that true? Actually, it’s not. (more…)