How Do You Define Your Life?

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i was interested in why do i over complicate life and then say i want it to be simpler? That's one of the things when i think of and ow suffering that almost created suffering, but i think meaning comes from it. People with high meanings live lives of stress and difficulty and anxiety. And often they seek out. They seek those out for different ways. I think we get bored otherwise. You know, i tell the story, this isn't my story. This is a story by allan watts. In parable goes like this: imagine you go to sleep one night and you find yourself in a lucid dream. You could dream whatever you want for 85 years,. af experienced time

Paul Bloom is a professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto. He was also the Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Yale University . Paul studies how children and adults make sense of the world, with a focus on pleasure, morality, religion, fiction, and art.

Paul's newest book is The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning.

Read more about Paul at his website: paulbloom.net.

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