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#635 - Mark Normand - Why Is Everyone So Angry All The Time?

Modern Wisdom

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The Bizarre Truth About Life

"I totally get that the directionlessness, the fact that you don't have a single call it an enemy or a life goal or a direction that you're moving toward means that you kind of just get distracted by everything," he says. "It's this weird kind of ungrabbable sadness where before it was very like, the Russians are going to shoot us or Hitler's bad or whatever." A lot of people have this sense that a lot of their mental time in their sanity is taken up worrying about things that probably don't matter,. Just the number of cycles that your brain goes through per day, having thoughts that tomorrow you'll not be glad that you had.

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