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Why we choose to suffer, with Paul Bloom, PhD

Speaking of Psychology

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Do You Have More Meaning in Your Life?

There's been some very nice research. Do to people who have more meaning in their lives than usually have less day to day happiness or can you kind of maximize both? There are people who claim to have very happy lives, whose lives contain o relatively less struggle and difficulty. And it turns out that u and there's real world examples, as bedudis and lad, that people who do good kind of enjoy it and gain something from it. We don't think they are as good people. This shows up a in the charities we do. So if all of us ani want to raise money for a good cause, there've got to be suffering in it.

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