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How To Build a Happy Life: When Virtues Become Vices

How to Know What’s Real

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Work and the Disease of Addiction

Work has become vulnerable to the same kinds of transformations that we see with any drug. It's more problematic because, you know, it's highly socially acceptable. One of the most to me fascinating and enduring themes in the disease of addiction is the role of control. And this wanting to have this illusion of control over our lives, drugs become a way to do that.

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