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为什么聪明又成功的人幸福感不足？聪明人常常动辄计较付出多少代价、获得多少好处，所以幸福感反而低于普通人Suppose a magic genie appeared on your desk right now and offered to grant you three wishes. What would you ask for? With smarty-pants answers like “I wish for an infinite number of future wishes” ruled out, the thousands of research subjects who have taken this simple quiz have mostly come up with the answers you’d expect, like wealth, fame, health, true love, career success, and power.假设会魔法的精灵出现在在你桌上，可以满足你三个愿望，你会许什么愿？将 “希望未来能满足无穷无尽的愿望”这种自作聪明的回答排除在外，做这个小测试的数千位研究对象大部分都给出了意料之中的答案，比如财富、名誉、健康、真爱、职业成功和权力。But here’s a surprise: Despite the fact that happiness ranks high on most people’s lists of what they want from life (often in the No. 1 spot), almost no one ever asks the genie for it.Why not?但也有出人意料的：虽然大多数人在生活中都很看重幸福（常常排在首位），可几乎没人请求精灵让自己快乐。为什么？A new book, If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Happy?, offers some fascinating insights into that question, among others. Author Raj Raghunathan, a professor at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas, has been teaching an MBA course in happiness for the past five years (and now an online Coursera version), but he’s been studying it for much longer. Based on his own research, and hundreds of other happiness studies cited in the book’s appendix, Ragunathan has identified seven basic reasons why the smart and successful, which he abbreviates as “the S-and-S,” are likely to be even less happy than the average person.对这个问题，新近面世的《既然你这么聪明，为什么你不开心？》（If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Happy?）一书提出了不少很有趣的见解。这本书的作者拉吉·洛格纳汗是得克萨斯大学麦库姆斯商学院教授。过去五年，他一直在教授有关快乐的MBA课程（在线教育平台Coursera上已有这门课），他研究快乐的时间要长得多。根据洛格纳汗长期研究结果，以及书中附录引用的数百项其他研究，他找出了聪明人和成功人士（书中简写为“S与S型人”）没有普通人快乐的七个基本原因。Apparently, they’re too smart for their own good. For one thing, people with above-average intelligence are most likely to “devalue” happiness. Everyone wants it, but when they were asked why they didn’t ask the hypothetical genie for it, high achievers were most likely to say that they feared happiness would mak