朋友越少越聰明大綱
I used to have a lot of friends. In fact, one of my friends recently commented on how easy it is for me to make friends. This may have been true once, but I'm not so sure of my friend-making abilities these days.
曾經，我有過很多朋友。事實上，最近我的一位朋友說他/她覺得我交朋友太容易了。曾經的確如此，但近來我卻對交朋友的能力不那麼確定了。I'm not very confident in my friend-keeping abilities. If you compared the number of good friends I have now to the aMount I had five years ago, there would be a huge difference. I have fewer friendships than I used to.
我對自己交朋友的能力沒那麼自信。如果你將我現在的朋友數量與五年前相比，那差距就太大了。現在的朋友比以前少得多。Lead researchers, Satoshi Kanazawa and Norman Li, evolutionary psychologists in England, found that, while most people's happiness increased in relation to a decrease in population density (as well has a high percentage of interactions with loved ones), people who are extremely intelligent are actually happier when they're not hanging out with friends.
首席研究員、英格蘭的進化心理學家Satoshi Kanazawa和Norman Li發現：雖然隨着人口密度的降低，人們的幸福度上升（以及與心愛的人互動更頻繁），但對於那些超聰明的人而言，不和朋友出去玩纔是他們更開心的時候。
"More intelligent individuals experience lower life satisfaction with more frequent socialization with friends," the study said.
"更聰明的人如果與朋友頻繁社交就會對生活不怎麼滿意，"研究說道。
In an article on The Washington Post, Carol Graham, a Brookings Institute researcher who studies the economics of happiness, said, "The findings suggest (and it is no surprise) that those with more intelligence and the capacity to use it ... are less likely to spend so much time socializing because they are focused on some other longer term objective."
在《華盛頓郵報》的一篇文章中，布魯金斯研究所的一名研究員卡羅爾·格雷厄姆研究幸福經濟學，他說道："研究結果表明（毫無意外），那些更聰明、有能力運用自己智慧的人不太可能花很長時間社交，因爲他們更關注其它一些更長遠的目標。"It makes sense. Super-smart people usually have exciting new theories they want to prove, or inventions they're working on that will change the world. The highly intelligent don't want to spend their time socializing - they want to pursue their goals. They've got more important things to do than listen to their friends talk about their vacations in Italy over dinner.
這是說得通的。超聰明的人通常要證明令人興奮的新理論、或者要發明改變世界的東西。超聰明的人不想把時間花在社交上面--他們想要追求自己的目標。他們有更重要的事情去做，而不是在晚餐的時候聽自己的朋友叨叨自己的意大利之旅。The study suggests that the brains of our hunter-gatherer ancestors were perfectly adapted to life on the African savannah, where the population would have been scattered, with people living in groups of around 150. Social interaction would have been extremely important in order to survive, especially in terms of co-operation and finding a mate, but space would have been crucial as well.
這一研究表明我們狩獵祖先的大腦完全適應了非洲大草原的生活，那裏的人羣分散，大約150個人生活在一個羣體中。爲了生存，社交至關重要，尤其是在合作和尋找配偶方面，但空間也同樣重要。
