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#1128 Chris Williamson On Understanding Human Nature & Modern Wisdom

The Pomp Podcast

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Is There a Balance Between Success and Happiness?

Most of the people that I've spoken to that successful are curious. They're led forward by a desire to find out about the world and that seems to be a very robust way to motivate yourself to go forward. There's basic stuff like conscientiousness, hard work, motivation, sticking to promises that they made to themselves. A lot of the time what people do when they try and achieve happiness through success is that they sacrifice the thing that they want for the thing that's supposed to get it. The goal that you're working toward here is for you to be happy with what you do. No amount of external validation is going to fix that. If you tell people what you think they want

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