If you’re smart with a huge ego you’re so fucked. You’re too good at lying to yourself and manipulating the world round you to prop up your identity.

Then you suffer the isolation of being an empty prop in the miserable world of your own creation

You conjure up bullet proof excuses to explain away the cracks and inconsistencies — desperately attempting to maintain your sense of control.

You’re not smart enough though; you never can be. This is the warning from the story of the emperor’s new clothes. Living in delusion only serves to expose your insecurity.