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#542 - Dr Randy Nesse - Evolutionary Psychiatry Can Explain Human Emotions
Modern Wisdom
Are We All in Competition With Our Goals?
What gives us pleasure is not actually accomplishing our goals, and what gives us happiness is making progress towards goals. Getting there is not such a good thing but making progress towards a goal. This means you've got to have a goal of some sort, not something grand, necessarily, but fixing dinner or getting your Yeti microphone to work. Our life is just consumed by all of these little goals that we are all in competition with each other. It's just not possible to be the best and to have a balanced life.
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