Is There a Connection Between Happiness and Money?

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There's three possible answers to this. One is that simply focusing on certain things makes you bad at them. A second possibility is that people who focus on happiness think too much about happiness. And a third answer, consistent of the rest, is that there's nothing inherently wrong with trying to be happy. It's just that people try to go about it in the wrong way.

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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