Odd discussion. I think happiness is much simpler but perhaps deeper than they're alluding to here. There's a bit to happiness which is immediate - a factor of

Odd discussion. I think happiness is much simpler but perhaps deeper than they're alluding to here. There's a bit to happiness which is immediate - a factor of the present. There's longer term happiness, but there's something of a discount function to happiness in the future or past to the present. (This will vary person to person.) Fundamentally, happiness is about desires/expectations meeting reality in agreement. A human's also a complex being capable of being happy about some things while upset/angry about others and so on. A human also ages, so definitely happiness means something different across those ages. A new born baby, for instance, will largely use cries to communicate more than adult, for I hope obvious reasons. But the takeaway, I think, is that happiness is when expectations or needs are met by reality. Anyway, I refute this claim that "smarts" have some inherent relationship to how much happiness a person should have for the above reasons. Happiness is a feeling. "Smarts" is probably how efficient your brain is at using the accumulated facts within it. Quite obviously, those are independent things.