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You Can’t Always Want What You Like
The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos
Why Do We Choose to Do It?
Paul Waldman argues that what we like is complicated. He says hard work and pain feel good because they take up a lot of mental band with. We choose suffering filled activities because they help to bolster our identity, he says. But this raises an even bigger question: Why does effort and suffering wind up feeling good?
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