Is It a Sacrifice of Momentary Suffering?

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I think that illustrates how complicated our motivations are. If you have little kids, your life is probably worse than somebody who was not. So parents usually are glad their parents, even in the most awful circumstances. And a suggeststhat there 's som sort of multiple itches to scratch and one itch is t itch you've been scratching before you were a parent, and yu price still scratch now. Which is your pleasure. You want hav a good time. But there's also purpose. And avinkis is, i think, purposeful and meaningful activity that draws us for different reasons. To some extent, my book is a defence of putting more meaning and purpose into the

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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