STEM Finance

The more of a generalist, artsy, or liberal someone is, the more free time they have.

Because they have free time, they choose to add complexities to their lives.

Including Warren Buffett’s personal life and Ben Graham’s. It’s because their answers in work are relatively simple.

Now direct your eye to people in finance that are heavily focused on STEM or even STEM professionals themselves.

Divorce rates for STEM professions are among the lowest of all occupations: For example, astronomers and physicists have a divorce rate of just 7%, and engineers are around 8%. This is much lower than the general population, where about 40% of first marriages end in divorce.

• Most STEM professionals have stable personal lives compared to other fields, and high-profile scandals are exceptional, not typical.

So, the proportion of high-IQ STEM figures with complicated romantic lives is statistically very small compared to the overall group.

The answer is clear.

If you are pushing the limits of what is possible in the mind. That in itself is complex enough.

Therefore, there is no capacity for a complex personal life.

In conclusion, your pursuit of simple job or task(Non STEM), simple business models might sound lucrative, but it will likely give you time for vices and will give you time to have a complex life.

In other words, you might hate derivatives in finance, but you have many derivatives as it goes to relationships.