The Pleasures of Suffering

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I started off cause it was just a puzzle. And that's what i liked about it, especially the approach you took. I mean, talking about the pleasures of suffering and the diconomy between pain and pleasure. It's an interesting approach to it. How did you get to this idea of kind of balancing the the yin and the yang of happiness, if you will?

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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