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#585 - Adam Mastroianni - Are Smart People Actually Happier?
Modern Wisdom
Why We Sacrifice Happiness to Achieve Success
A lot of the time, especially now my background is in the productivity world, at least when I started this show. And coming out of that does make me think that so much over optimization has led people to get themselves into a situation where they sacrifice happiness for success. So there's something very weird and unexplained here about how very strong theories of happiness can mislead you into spending a lot of time making yourself unhappy.
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