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Alain de Botton and the complexity of modern day love

Life Examined

CHAPTER

How Do We Get Rid of Our Negativity?

The environment in which we live is deeply, deeply unhelpful to finding peace of mind. The images that we see beamed at us and the messages that we pick up on our phones are not well geared to relaxing us. In order to be the people we really want to be, we need to be extremely tough editors of the messages that reach our ears. And so I think we need a general curation of the inflammation and moods that reach us.

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