Intelligent people are quite complex. An awesome family life, an amazing partner, and a rocketing career might still not be enough to keep them happy.

Here are 6 reasons why these special people often have trouble finding happiness:

1. They are victims of overanalysis

Intelligent people often can’t help overthinking and overanalyzing many things in their lives. This can drain them and ends up taking a lot of energy. They can also get frustrated even over seemingly trivial matters when they are not done well. Intelligent people are also often affected by hyper-reflecting on global affairs and philosophical debates.

2. They want everything to match up to their high standards

These individuals tend to know 100% of what they want in life, and anything less just doesn’t please them or make them happy. When situations occur that don’t measure up to their standards, they feel disappointed. This applies to almost everything- from careers to relationships.

3. Intelligent people often judge themselves harshly

Their tendency to be too hard on themselves can keep them from finding the true happiness that comes from unconditional self-acceptance. They often blame themselves for whatever’s happening in their lives; a difficult result of accepting full responsibility over one’s life. Overthinking and very high standards also play into this. They sometimes let their past mistakes haunt them, and if left unchecked this habit can lead to reduced motivation.

4. They aim for big goals

Their goals are set quite high when compared with the average person. In fact, they are often seeking results of such magnitude that they often forget to appreciate the things they already have in life. A mediocre life seems boring to them, and they are in a constant search for greatness.

5. They’re not a fan of small talk

Intelligent people find it hard to find another individual who can truly understand them. They prefer not to indulge in small talk and would rather be involved in meaningful conversations. This can be the reason why they often feel lonely and misunderstood.

Certain studies have shown that intelligent individuals do not feel the need to socialize as much as the average person to feel satisfied with their lives. But this doesn’t mean they don’t crave a good conversation every once in a while.

6. They can sometimes develop psychological issues

Various studies have found a link between intelligent minds and psychiatric disorders, such as being bipolar and having social anxiety. The conclusion is not, however, that these disorders are direct side-effects of having an intelligent mind. The high amount of energy that goes into intense thinking often leaves emotional and physical balance by the wayside unless one has developed a balanced and healthy lifestyle to go along with their genius mind.

Intelligent minds ponder the meaning of their existence and the nature of the universe, and often wonder about if there is life after death. Since these questions cannot be answered by the mind, it can lead to overthinking.

If you are highly intelligent and have trouble finding happiness, take a few moments today and hop out of your brilliant mind, and instead rest your awareness in your heart. ‘Take heart’ as they say, and this will help you to avoid overthinking, and can also bring about sources of deep love into your genius.

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Growing up, we were made to believe that a big purpose in our lives is to find our perfect partner, or ‘soulmate’. As time goes on, we realize that it can actually be quite difficult to find that person.

Our zodiac sign provides some useful hints in helping us discover what kind of person we are compatible with and with whom we can have a truly happy relationship with.

Aries

You are going to need a partner who will not think twice about contradicting or opposing you. You’re not going to settle for the blind follower or passive type. Moreover, your partner should also possess the same level of intellect as you.

Taurus

You will need a person who will rock your stable boat. You’ve been complacent with leaving things the way they are and you like to resist change. This will hinder growth and development. You have to realize that you can become more. Your partner shall help you understand this.

Gemini

Your ideal partner helps you channel your energy and passion in the right direction. He/she will help you focus and keep you from getting distracted. Ultimately, they will provide you unending support and love.

Cancer

You’ll need a person who you can be fully open to. From your deepest secrets to your guilty pleasures, they accept them wholeheartedly. No judgment.

Leo

This person shall help you in your self-discovery. They recognize the façade you keep when facing the world and shall help you lose the façade and unravel your true self. Your soulmate will love you for who you really are.

Virgo

He/she will help you to believe in yourself and encourage you to really have compassion towards yourself. Most of the time you are too hard on yourself, and your soul mate realizes this. You need someone who can make you see the beauty of being you.

Libra

You need a partner who understands your need for solitude at times. One who understands that interacting with people can be really tiring for you. They give you the space you need, and when you return, there’s nothing but love.

Scorpio

You’ve had too much drama in your life mainly due to a lot of trust being broken. You are also afraid of making mistakes and being rejected. Your partner will be the one you can trust fully and will understand all of your issues.

Sagittarius

The ability to embrace change and being adaptive are the qualities you need in a partner. You will not be satisfied with the mediocre type who doesn’t have much aspiration. Someone who can wander off with you is what you need.

Capricorn

Your soul mate shall be your guiding light towards discovering your real self. He/she will open your eyes to the things you didn’t even realize about yourself. Their gentle and tender demeanor allows your heart to open, and when it opens, you see.

Aquarius

You need a partner who is going to tell you straight about your ideas, and if they are less than ideal they are also able to advise you to drop them. But they will be your rock and support once you’ve decided on the path that’s true to your heart. The key word is direct; both honest and kind.

Pisces

Yours will be quite easy to find. You just need someone who will inspire you and help you succeed in life. This person shall help you shake off all that negative thinking and make you focus on the positive. Find someone who is already doing what you’re passionate about, and watch your heart open to them.

“Love is just a word, until someone comes along and gives it meaning.”

It’s been said that we really only fall in love with three people in our lifetime. Yet, it’s also believed that we need each of these loves for a different reason.




Often our first is when we are young, in high school even. It’s the idealistic love—the one that seems like the fairy tales we read as children.

This is the love that appeals to what we should be doing for society’s sake—and probably our families. We enter into it with the belief that this will be our only love and it doesn’t matter if it doesn’t feel quite right, or if we find ourselves having to swallow down our personal truths to make it work because deep down we believe that this is what love is supposed to be.

Because in this type of love, how others view us is more important than how we actually feel.

It’s a love that looks right.

The second is supposed to be our hard love—the one that teaches us lessons about who we are and how we often want or need to be loved. This is the kind of love that hurts, whether through lies, pain or manipulation.

We think we are making different choices than our first, but in reality we are still making choices out of the need to learn lessons—but we hang on. Our second love can become a cycle, oftentimes one we keep repeating because we think that somehow the ending will be different than before. Yet, each time we try, it somehow ends worse than before.




Sometimes it’s unhealthy, unbalanced or narcissistic even. There may be emotional, mental or even physical abuse or manipulation—most likely there will be high levels of drama. This is exactly what keeps us addicted to this storyline, because it’s the emotional roller coaster of extreme highs and lows and like a junkie trying to get a fix, we stick through the lows with the expectation of the high.

With this kind of love, trying to make it work becomes more important than whether it actually should.

It’s the love that we wished was right.

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And the third is the love we never see coming. The one that usually looks all wrong for us and that destroys any lingering ideals we clung to about what love is supposed to be. This is the love that comes so easy it doesn’t seem possible. It’s the kind where the connection can’t be explained and knocks us off our feet because we never planned for it.

This is the love where we come together with someone and it just fits—there aren’t any ideal expectations about how each person should be acting, nor is there pressure to become someone other than we are.

We are just simply accepted for who we are already—and it shakes to our core.

It isn’t what we envisioned our love would look like, nor does it abide by the rules that we had hoped to play it safe by. But still it shatters our preconceived notions and shows us that love doesn’t have to be how we thought in order to be true.

This is the love that keeps knocking on our door regardless of how long it takes us to answer.

It’s the love that just feels right.




Maybe we don’t all experience these loves in this lifetime, but perhaps that’s just because we aren’t ready to. Maybe the reality is we need to truly learn what love isn’t before we can grasp what it is.

Possibly we need a whole lifetime to learn each lesson, or maybe, if we’re lucky, it only takes a few years.

Perhaps it’s not about if we are ever ready for love, but if love is ready for us.

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And then there may be those people who fall in love once and find it passionately lasts until their last breath. Those faded and worn pictures of our grandparents who seemed just as in love as they walked hand-in-hand at age 80 as they did in their wedding picture—the kind that leaves us wondering if we really know how to love at all.

Someone once told me they are the lucky ones, and perhaps they are.

But I kinda think that those who make it to their third love are really the lucky ones.




They are the ones who are tired of having to try and whose broken hearts lay beating in front of them wondering if there is just something inherently wrong with how they love.

But there’s not; it’s just a matter of if their partner loves in the same way they do or not.

Just because it has never worked out before doesn’t mean that it won’t work out now.

What it really comes down to is if we are limited by how we love, or instead love without limits. We can all choose to stay with our first love, the one that looks good and will make everyone else happy. We can choose to stay with our second under the belief that if we don’t have to fight for it, then it’s not worth having—or we can make the choice to believe in the third love.

The one that feels like home without any rationale; the love that isn’t like a storm—but rather the quiet peace of the night after.




And maybe there’s something special about our first love, and something heartbreakingly unique about our second…but there’s also just something pretty amazing about our third.

The one we never see coming.
The one that actually lasts.
The one that shows us why it never worked out before.

And it’s that possibility that makes trying again always worthwhile, because the truth is you never know when you’ll stumble into love.

“You found parts of me I didn’t know existed and in you I found a love I no longer believed was real.”

Source: Kate Rose

Can you find the Missing Number in the pictures in less than 10 seconds each?

Together there are 7 pictures, see if you can find all 7 missing numbers in less than 70 seconds!




A 2013 study found that forms of mental exercise, such as crossword puzzles, were among the most effective ways to preserve memory and cognitive function — in fact, there was better evidence of the effectiveness of these types of approaches than for many types of medications.

A 2014 trial funded by the National Institutes of Health found that the benefits of cognitive training for older adults can last up to 10 years, and researchers recommended that older adults try any cognitively stimulating activity, such as solving puzzles, to keep these benefits.

See if you can find all of the missing numbers below!

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Were you able to spot all of the missing numbers? You’re doing great! Keep going, there’s three more to go!

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Were you able to find all of the missing numbers? If you found 100% of them, you’re a pro, and if you were able to find all 7 in less than 70 seconds (10 seconds or less each), then you are among the few who have an eye for details and amazing cognitive abilities! Congratulations! Please consider using some of your mental genius this week to help someone in your area. When we do good for others, good things also come to us 🙂

Let us know in the comments how quickly you found all 7 missing numbers.

Answers:
1. 13
2. 18
3. 11
4. 27
5. 19
6. 24
7. 42

Opening photo: 24

You meet a stranger in a grocery store and they suddenly pour their heart out to you and tell you their life story.  You find yourself feeling some sort of connection with this person because you can really relate to them. You can’t help but experience their feelings right along with them.

If you’ve met a person or already have a friend like this, they could likely be an empath.

An empath hones a magnetism that instantly draws people toward them. It’s not just that they are sympathetic–it’s more than that. They have the ability to connect with another’s feelings and pains, and they also deeply experience it.

Here are 16 signs that you’re in the presence of an empath:




1. They are often described as “too sensitive.”

We often hear other people talk about how someone is too sensitive as if it is a negative attribute. But we forget that being sensitive implies a feeling of connectivity to another person’s experience; a connection between hearts. When we talk to someone who is sensitive, who knows and feels our situation, we feel lighter. So, it is not something to devalue. In fact, in our present time, we rarely meet these kinds of people, and if you do ever get the chance to know one, treasure them; they are a gift.

2. They hate being lied to.

You cannot lie to an empath, and if you do, they can tell when you are. An empath’s understanding nature gives them the ability to see and feel more than what people say. They are transparently honest, and can’t stand it when people lie to them. To them, there is no point in hiding the truth.

3. Negative images have a deep negative impact on them.

Some people can tolerate watching violent or terrifying movies, but empaths cannot. They would rather avoid seeing terrible scenes and knowing about sad stories as these have a direct impact on their deep seated feelings.

4. Crowds are overwhelming to them.

Empaths are often both introverts and extroverts, but they cannot last long in a crowd because of the large amount of different emotions of people all in one place. Empaths take this all in which is exhausting to them.

5. They find peace and happiness in helping others.

If you have that one friend who is always there when you need them the most, then you are a blessed person. Empaths love to help people and it gives them a sense of peace and happiness when they do something for another human being. When empaths help, they do not expect anything in return.

6. They think twice before pouring another cup of coffee or taking medicine.

Empaths have a strong reaction to stimulants like caffeine, which tends to increase anxiety and agitation. Similarly, empaths will often react adversely to medications, and thus, avoid using synthetic solutions.

7. They are true to themselves.

Empaths show who they really are and do not put on any masks. Because of their deep understanding of the nature of people, they have seen that all people are inherently good. Their honesty causes them to be very accepting of other people’s faults. Everyone is a work in progress.

8. They experience what others are going through with them.

Empaths are very connected to those who they care about and open up with. When you tell an empath what you are going through, they also feel what you feel. They have a direct sense of feeling with you, and can understand your experience deeper than other friends would. They experience it with you.

9. They have an incredible bond with animals.

There is no such thing as pets to empaths, because to them, pets are family. To the empath, animals are living creatures with feelings, not meant to be owned or kept in zoos, and deserve the right to live free and happy lives just like everyone else.

10. Being emotionally and physically exhausted is a common occurrence for them.

Listening to one person’s problems can take its toll on you, especially when the person is going through something really heavy. Imagine having to go through this all day with several other people. Because empaths are very sensitive to the emotions experienced by others, it makes them emotionally and physically vulnerable and often exhausted.

11. Giving good advice is their natural talent.

Empaths know how to listen, and they listen to every word you say. They put themselves in your shoes. They truly want to see you succeed and their advice is coming from this space in the heart. Their advice comes from understanding your situation, and is usually worth listening to.

12. They are easily distracted.

They get distracted easily because they see every beautiful detail of every day. The kind of details we usually take for granted, the ‘little things’.

Empaths are not only sensitive to your feelings, but they are also sensitive to their surroundings. They are observant to everything taking place around them, and love to be in nature.

13. They have no room in their lives for narcissists

An empath can be emotionally drained quickly by a narcissist, so they avoid them at all costs. Yet their openness and vulnerability often draws narcissists to them.

Sometimes relationships develop between the two, but they are deeply unhealthy for both, as it is similar to a predator and prey type of relationship.

14. They are hyper sensitive to sound.

An empath’s sensitivity to sound can help them to pickup on unnoticed frequencies and noises, but they are also sensitive to loud noises and this can bring them stress.

They avoid loud and unpleasant settings, yet pleasant sounds such as birds chirping and peaceful music help them to maintain their gentle and loving energy.

15. They are an above-average listener

Some people while listening are spending most of their energy planning what they are going to say in response. This can disrupt their understanding of what the other is saying, because they hadn’t given full attention to listening.

But with an empath, you get your point across easily because they know how to hear you. You feel very comfortable talking with them as they know how to handle a conversation; by truly listening and understanding without judgment.

16. They have a strange effect on electronics.

Hard to believe, but many empaths experience their electronics malfunctioning higher than normal. When they use a computer or a phone, they often have glitches or bugs, or lights become too bright or go out.

If you know someone who has all of these qualities, then consider yourself blessed.

Empaths are a gift to the world, and their sensitive natures should be treasured. Their purity makes them who they are.

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