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Happiness Lessons of The Ancients: The Buddha

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

CHAPTER

The Four Noble Truths of the Buddha

When you think about it from a darwinian point of view, thits makes total sense. I mean, if you imagine two animals, one of them have genes that keep the animal perennially restless. You compare that to an animal whose gene s provide just enduring contentment after a single meal. And also, i think nobody knew about all these lovely data on hedonic adaptation psychologically, right? With this idea that, you know, we're always on this treadmill, chasing more and more stuff... Even if you get these fantastic things in life, you know, you just go back to base line, even though we don't predict it,. Wey have these incorrect theories...

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