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The good life is painful

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

Money Doesn't Make You Happy

psychologists used to believe very strongly that money doesn't make you happy. And now it turns out that, maybe not surprisingly, money does make youhappy. We tend to overstate the value of certain possessions but we quickly burn out our nunders like a heat on tha treadmill. I think the one thing people miss is, from both a happiness point of vew and also a sort of purpose meaning point of view, the power of the right sort of social connections.

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