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Paul Bloom - The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning

Smart People Podcast

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Is There a Connection Between Happiness and Money?

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.

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