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The Hidden Mental Anguish of a Successful Tech Investor

The Anxious Achiever

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The Oppositable Thumb, the Root Cause of Mental Illnesses

Andy Cevallos: Our remarkable memory and our tremendous imagination is also the root cause of most of life's suffering. The thing that really differentiates us is this dream machine that we have in our head, he says. "Everything that we experienced in the day that we consider real is only real in the sense that it was an idea that we once had"

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