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EP 437: Leaving the Cult of Never Enough with Manisha Thakor

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The Importance of Small Joys

Manisha Basu: I was so focused on achieving that I had lost all connection to small joys and simplicity. She says she became alienated from herself in a way philosophers might describe as impenetrability or inaccessibility, which feeds the cycle of alienation. "This book for me was really a cry for help for myself and a desire to find a solution," writes Basu.

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