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How can we optimise for a meaningful life?

Not Overthinking

CHAPTER

Doing Less Work

i used to think you had to feel the way lucia does, i e, sort of genuinely feel the suffering of people. One thing i find can have helpful is roband thinking motivation as it is,. separating it into drive and values. And a for me, altruism doing good is like a really, really car value. It's like kind of a drive, like i feel happy when i do good. But i have lots of other drives, like social motivation, status, solving fun problems... What matters is that i achieve my values. My drive don't have to be the fact that i'm achieving my values.

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