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Overcome the Comfort Crisis

The Art of Manliness

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Why Does Life Feel Harder Even Though We've Got It Pretty Good?

There is a scientific reason for this actually. As we have more comforts introduced to our lives, we don't necessarily become more satisfied with them. We just sort of lower our threshold for what we consider comfortable. So you can think about this as almost the science of first world problems.

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