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What Most People Get Wrong About Wealth, Fame, and Happiness

Plain English with Derek Thompson

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The Ideology of Experience: Scaling Success

This chapter explores how ideologies like communism perform on different scales, contrasting familial successes with societal failures. It also examines the impact of optimization in sports and the relationship between expectations and happiness, emphasizing the need to manage expectations in both sports and life.

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