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Johann Hari - Everything You Think You Know About Meaning & Happiness Is Wrong

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

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Are You Good at Taking Your Own Advice?

i think people are often most articulate about the things they most struggle with. Sometimes that's presented as hypoi, like a left wing politician who is incredibly articulate about greed and how terrible it is, and is incredibly greedy. But to me, what's much more interesting is someone who has this force within him, his genuinely trying because he's wrestling with it all the time. And so i think er, in a sense, taking your own advice, its sort of like the fact that you needed to articulate the advice suggests that internal struggle do no. You mean i think about e m forster, one my favourite writers, who famously said, only connect. Who was someone who really struggled

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