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#542 - Dr Randy Nesse - Evolutionary Psychiatry Can Explain Human Emotions
Modern Wisdom
Natural Selection Isn't the Answer to Your Happiness Problem
Natural selection doesn't give a fig about our fitness or about our happiness. A lot of people are just wondering about all the time miserable because the system is shaped to go with them, it's in their genes interests. It makes me a little pessimistic sometimes about the idea we're all going to be happy if we only do the right thing and think the right way. But he's right, desire is the problem. We all have all these desires and none of us can satisfy all of them, and it's all built into the design. The wisdom25 code will get you 25% off your first test at trylgc.com slash modern that's t-r-y lGC
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