Just as a sophisticated diet narrows the number of restaurants that can feed you, sophisticated intellectual interests narrow the number of people who can genuinely engage with you. Alain de Botton argues this is structural, not circumstantial — the more niche and deep your interests, the smaller your pool of compatible social partners becomes. Complexity of mind actively militates against easy social connection.
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