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#149 Neil Pasricha: Simple Rules for Happiness

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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Are You Trying to Control Your Life?

We're animals, man. We got an amygdala to our brain looking for problems all everywhere all the time. The extrinsic motivators are fed to us more and more because they know that we're addicted to them. And we have to design our life so that we look, you were doing a great job of this. You're sitting in front of a bookshelf period books, 57% of Americans read zero books last year. I don't know how many of these you read but even if it's a fraction of them, you're way ahead.

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