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Paul Bloom - The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning
Smart People Podcast
The Hedonic Treadmill
A lot of people who have had some professional success find out what relly used to tickle them a was less pleasant later on. And so, so people respondto us in different ways. I henk the onthis to say, well, you know, i'm not going to seek endless pleasures. I'm going to seek other things. Think valuable goods. A good, long friendship and a good, long romance. In having kids, are long, sustained relationships that lack, by definition, but also almost by definition, they ought to give you valuable thingsyou couldn't get from this sudden, suddenly, new thing. Some things through sustained, perienced it's like the sto
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