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A lot of smart people aren't immune to bearing this path that leads to unhappiness.
Quite the opposite. Society rewards you for being highly aggressive and long-term consistent in your decision, but when it comes to relationship, kindness often matters more than being right.
Being capable of listening is more important than trying to fix everything and constantly putting pressure on others, which just results in them leaving you.
That is why you see many successful people and wealthy people who are actually struggling with mental health, with their marriage, with their kids, with loneliness,
because that is the price they pay to get where they are. They went fast and far, but they went alone.