Choosing Verses Unchosen Is Important

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I love what you're saying there about the mental impact of pain. I wonder if it's just simply because when you have to struggle for everything,. you don't have time to worry about unnecessary worries, or made up worries. There's defily that sort of trade off. Suffering can often be that the negatives could way outweigh the positives. But going for a good, hard run, or playing squash, or engaging in consentual sects of different sorts, can take your head away from things and that emendously powerful.

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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