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The Drive Interview with Peter Attia

Making Sense with Sam Harris

CHAPTER

Is Happiness a Safe Play?

Happiness is not a safe play, it's perpetually under threat. Any joy you can feel by virtue of its having arisen based on some causes and conditions, is going to pass away. You just can't keep any emotion going for days or even hours at a time. And one thing you discover when you lean to meditate is that your negative emotion in particular, has a very short half life.

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