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Eric Jorgenson // Philosophy of Wealth + Happiness // The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

Creator Lab - interviews with entrepreneurs and startup founders

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Desire Is a Contract You Make With Yourself to Be Unhappy Until You Get What You Want

If you have set a very specific goal for yourself and not updated based on what is interesting or comes naturally to you now, like you may be causing some extreme suffering for yourself. Can you let go of that old thing or are you still holding on with the suffering attached to that? That's an interesting idea. So this actually brings up the idea of desire, which is also in the book. Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.

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