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#621 - David Laid - Why Getting Shredded Won’t Make You Happy

Modern Wisdom

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The Importance of Resolving Obsessions

You can justify any kind of activity as being the thing that is going to give you a sense of dopaminergic i achieved. In reality they have the same ego it's just transmuted into something else. Just because you have switched one type of obsession for another does not necessarily mean that that obsession is more holistic. You could argue given the choice between being obsessed with the gym and taking heroin that the gym is objectively a better obsession to have but if you're going to get really down to zero how can we sit with the discomfort of not being enough?

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