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#118: How Philosophy Can Change Your Life, Alain de Botton

The Tim Ferriss Show

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The Secret to Happiness Is Low Expectations

i like to spoil the idea of being a cheerful pessimist. I think there is, you can have these, what you could call paradoxical positions on issues. You may encounter moments of pure ecstasy as you realize that there are some very fine things in a world which is otherwise very dark. i don't think a back drop of stark realism, slash pessimism about all sorts of things should be your default setting. It's important to keep the really grim things not far from the top of consciousness pretty much every day. Some of the finest ambitions fall prey toi the meanest realities,. et cetera. Tha, perhaps all of us will go to our death beds with some

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