Has anyone considered the flipside to this? Maybe a lot of unhappy people just assume they&#x27;re &quot;smart&quot; instead of depressed or other mental illness, or are just asocial personality types. I&#x27;ve met more than a few mediocre people who have this attitude and engage in talk about &quot;sheeple&quot; and such, but they&#x27;re not remotely exceptional intellectually. In fact, most of them are fairly average or perhaps do slightly better than average in one small area in their life and play that up as justification for their greatness.<p>I think its easy for the depressed or people who are just misanthropes to hide behind a &quot;the world will never understand my genius&quot; attitudes we see portrayed in the media. They see themselves as a John Nash or a misunderstood artist, when they&#x27;re just, well, ordinary.<p>This isn&#x27;t a hypothetical in my world. When we do hiring its hard to filter out the asocial smart guy from the asocial bullshitter for technical jobs, especially for entry-level. Shockingly, I find the asocial bullshitter personality is mostly unaware at how terrible he is for the job he&#x27;s applying for.  Maybe its Dunning-Kruger or just old fashioned arrogance, but it can be hard to spot. We have a bad hire like this and its incredible how much damage he has done to the department and how he&#x27;s unwilling to accept that he&#x27;s, at best, below average. Instead he engages in this &quot;tech master&quot; personality with non-technical staff that is bizarre to witness, especially when you listen in and hear that 50% of what he&#x27;s saying is just completely and obviously wrong.