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Happiness Lessons of The Ancients: Plato

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

CHAPTER

The Story of Leontius

The story is about the internal tension that laonteus feels his effort to try to control himself, and then the experience of just giving in. I can't control my appetite. i can't control my desire to go look at these dead bodies. It's basically the story of a rubber necker on a highway. The part of him that's fascinated and curious keeps pulling towards the wall. And he thinks like, that's disgusting. Don't look at that. But part of him, i's just fascinated and curious. He wants to show you that you, like everyone else, are filled with internal strife....

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