When you are smart, trivial things, like making "good" or rational choices are simply boring. This boredom naturally increases with the number of trivial things

When you are smart, trivial things, like making "good" or rational choices are simply boring. This boredom naturally increases with the number of trivial things. When confronted to boredom, intelligent people will generally choose something stimulating, if not on an intellectual level, at least on some other level. And since they are very good at finding lateral solutions to problems, they will go for out of the box, so-called irrational, things/choices. The world is boring, plagued by overly simple, artificially complicated, problems and life goes by like water between your fingers. To survive and be productive when intelligent, you've got to be happily endowed with autistic features, which not all intelligent people are. The world is beating its own records of waste every day and that goes for intelligence too. So, one might as well have a less boring life. All this is not a downside of being clever. It's the downside of living in a pathetically wasteful, boring and often plain stupid world.