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Are we too busy to pay attention to life?

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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Is Facebook a Destroyer of Happiness?

We're wired to want to know things about other people in our network, where we've been gossiping since we developed language. And it's no surprise that the most valuable social media tools are basically tools in which we gossip about one another. So something like facebook, you know, i think it's destructive. To happiness in a big way, because people are unable to see those things and not feel tremendously envious. envy has been part of the human d na for as long as we've been human. I'm sure there is a evolutionary reason why that's true.

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