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#1128 Chris Williamson On Understanding Human Nature & Modern Wisdom

The Pomp Podcast

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A Tool Gawande - The Idea of Happiness

A tool Gawande wrote a book being mortal and in it the idea of happiness is basically expectations minus reality. A lot of us are scared that you're going to get rid of the drive like that's the thing that made me into the killer that i am right whether it's time or whether it's success if you sacrifice the thing that you want happiness for the thing which you're supposed to get it success or time people make themselves miserable by spending their time in order to be able to do something that can finally make them happy. I think that he is a particularly interesting example because he's someone that's a very high achiever but also seems to have found a good amount of peace with

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