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How To Build a Happy Life: Subtraction as a Solution

How to Know What’s Real

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Reverse Bucket List

One of the techniques that we actually developed in the last season of How to Build a Happy Life was the concept of the reverse bucket list. You say I might visit Machu Picchu before I die but if I don't I don't care. Basically what it comes down to is you can subtract responsibilities from your life and also add attachment to your own desires. Subtracting the attachment is supposed to subtracting the thing.

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