Has there ever been a happy polymath? Or are they always miserable?

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>>3216356
someone being a "polymath" arguably displays elements of mania and an unbalanced personality, while likely having unusual social relationships. I don't think they're all necessarily unhappy but by virtue of it being considered quite outside of the norm, even among "gifted" individuals, it's likely to come with a lot of odd behavioral traits.

I do find that a lot of my own friends and acquittances that pursued careers in academia have really big egos and are surprisingly focused on social attention more so than the subjects they work in. I'm not calling them shallow, just that they do care quite a bit about how people perceive them to an extent they're almost constantly unhappy. Someone diving into multiple subjects, and this is purely my opinion, is probably quite like this and worse

>>3218632
>someone being a "polymath" arguably displays elements of mania and an unbalanced personality
>Being good at many things means you're crrrrrazy
I sense jealousy in this post.

>unbalanced personality
>unbalanced
>Literally the opposite

>it's likely to come with a lot of odd behavioral traits.
Now that I will concede. Polymaths are incredibly rare, even among geniuses, but I really don't see why that should mean they should have to be isolated. Of course, I also see why they couldn't find much common ground with other humans.

>Someone diving into multiple subjects, and this is purely my opinion, is probably quite like this and worse
This is wrong. Single-field focusers are attention whores because they're plebs. Even the "experts" are typically morons. Polymaths just don't have much time outside of their pursuits for attention whoring.

>>3218668
I'm not jealous, why does every observation of a group have to imply jealousy on this site? True polymaths are so rare that for me to be jealous over not being one would be like being jealous over not being a old testament prophet. I have just met manic people before and I could easily see a polymath acting similarly to someone with bipolar disorder. With extreme highs and lows causing them to shift attention back and forth

>>3218709
>I'm not jealous, why does every observation of a group have to imply jealousy on this site?
Because it's not an observation. You're literally attributing pathology to a group simply because you don't belong to it. I'm going to go ahead and assume you're not a psychologist.

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>tfw too intelligent for happiness

>>3218897
It's really not just a meme.

>>3218593
Good post

Perhaps I should restate the OP. HOW can a polymath become happy?