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Oliver Burkeman | A Contrarian Approach to Setting Your Goals for the New Year

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

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The Price You Pay for Having an Opinion

Psychologists have long agreed that one of the greatest enemies of human happiness is hedonic adaptation. The idea that, you know, if you do that by moving into a bigger house, you'll just forget about how pleasurable it is to live in a bigger house. I don't think I would be a better person if my life situation or my family's life situation on a sort of constant process of improvement," says author David Frum.

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