Have you recently heard some short phrases like: "The poor with high cognition" or "People with high cognition are not happy"?

People who say these things actually don't truly understand what cognition is.
They treat cognition as a form of comfort, explain poverty as high cognition, and interpret pain as seeing too clearly.
But true cognition never makes a person become poor or suffer.
The essence of cognition is gaining more choices after understanding the rules.
The lower the cognition, the easier it is to be driven by emotions, desires, and the environment;
the higher the cognition, the more one can proactively decide what they want, what to give up, and what to bear.
Therefore, truly high-cognition people may not be happier, but they are definitely more peaceful and freer.
It's not that they can't get happiness, but that they are not kidnapped by happiness;
it's not that they can't own wealth, but that wealth does not define them.
The end point of cognition is not happiness, nor pain, but freedom.