When Intelligence Becomes a Trap

In this video, I discuss how being overly self-aware or overly attached to our “good” qualities, such as intelligence and depth, can end up alienating us from other people.

Drawing on ideas from Dostoevsky and Schopenhauer, I reflect on how overthinking and pedestal-building can evolve into isolation, and why remembering that others have inner lives just as complex as our own might matter more than we think.