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#568 - Dean Rickles - How To Deal With The Shortness Of Life

Modern Wisdom

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Deferred Happiness Syndrome

Seneca said that your present reality is a mere prelude to some idyllic future. This idyll is a mirage that will fade as you approach, revealing that the prelude you rushed through was in fact the one to your death. Carl Jung's theories discuss very similar problems with provisional life and problem of the poor attorney's. A poor attorney's character thinks they shouldn't be limited by things like death,. jobs, marriages, any kind of commitment at all because it pins them down.

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