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Speaking for the very smart people, I must say that this article is full of useless stereotypes. Most of us frequenting the smart-people-club are open, contemplating, and humble.

Happyness is mostly how you yourself perceive things and less dependent on external circumstances. I would work more on own pshychology and perception of things. Our brains are riddled with biases and filters, it helps a great deal to know about them and to identify your own fallacies.

Crypto is total bullshit, how could you ever think that it is practical to find three very large positive integers e, d, and n, such that with modular exponentiation for all integers m (with 0 ≤ m < n): m^d^e === m (mod n) and that knowing e and n, or even m, it can be extremely difficult to find d. Come on.

The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins (Evolution) The Red Queen - Matt Ridley (Sex and evolution) Sperm Wars - Robin Baker (Sex as the driving force in society)

The books, if red in that order, provide a total picture of evolution in our society and the driving forces.