If you’re so smart, how come you haven’t figured out how to be happy?

I heard something like this a while ago and it stuck with me.

I started using it as a mental model to play tricks on my mind.

If you’re so smart, how come you aren’t fit yet?

If you’re so smart, how come you haven’t achieved financial freedom? The list goes on…

Our ego tells us that we’re the smartest person in the world.

It creates all these narratives about how you’re the best and how everyone around you just doesn’t get it. It fools us into comfort.

But if you face reality and ask such questions, you realize that there’s a lot for you to do to prove that you’re so smart.

And you get to use this perception or belief that’s generated by your ego (that you’re so smart) to fuel work to making such goals happen.

If you are so smart, then achieve happiness, become fit, and gain financial freedom in the next couple of years.

Otherwise, are you so smart?