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The good life is painful
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
The Secret to Happiness
Happiness, and maybe the good life in general, falls into a sort of category of things for which striving defeats what you want to get. The trick to falling asleep does not involve saying go to sleep, damn it. A friend of mine, ted slingerlan, wrote a great book called trying not to try. It explores the chinese philosophical tradition on the question of how do you get effortless performance in something that includes being happy?
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