Introduction: the challenges of smart -- Smartness disparaged -- Smart work as oxymoron -- Original, formed, and available personalities -- Our experimental model -- The logic of mania -- Features of a racing brain -- The smart gap -- Thinking anxiety -- The lure of language and logic -- The lure of mysticism -- A firm but not proud conviction -- Unreasonable self-pestering -- The pain of appraising -- The God-bug syndrome -- Coming to grips with meaning -- Making daily meaning -- Embracing shifting meanings -- Exercising your brain -- A blueprint for smart