Paul Bloom - The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning
Smart People Podcast
How Much Meaning Do You Have in Your Life?
Gallop: Do we create or manifest problems because our life to day is too easy? Have we over crafted our reality such that wen have to manufacture suffering to just have meaning? A good question, and there's some data on this. While for happiness there is a positive correlation with how rich the country is, for meaning, there's a negative correlation. The countries that were poorer had the most meaning on average.
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