I'm pretty sure stupid people want to be smarter too, but that's not really my point. Smart people wanting to be smarter feels intuitive, but then again, if yo

I'm pretty sure stupid people want to be smarter too, but that's not really my point. Smart people wanting to be smarter feels intuitive, but then again, if you're that smart you should be able to figure out that you can't known everything anyway. Given that, you can try to optimise processes or your body directly, but that doesn't really help you much in the long term. I like to think if "being smart" the same way I think of perfection. They're both processes rather than states. So, what you think being smart means today might change tomorrow, independent of whether you've reached that state today or not. I'd try to optimise the things I do in life towards this notion of change and uncertainty. Then there is the part where we all die in the end. This should be fairly obvious, so let's just say being happy every once in a while doesn't hurt either. On top of that sits the whole irrationality thing (snake oil). When I read things like many smart drugs are natural, I can't help but think that if you don't know that your body has a hard time telling synthetic molecules apart from natural ones you probably shouldn't be touching any of this stuff anyway.