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16. What’s the Downside to Being Goal-Oriented?

No Stupid Questions

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Are We Not Eating Enough Ice Cream Cones?

I think that you and i probably do define ourselves a lot, and maybe too much, by our vocations. I will say this though, one of my favourite sayings in life was something my mam would say when we kids. And the phrase was, enough is as good as a feast. Even though the phrase connotes food and eating, i think as a life parallel, it's even better. In economic terms, you think about diminishing returns. This goes back to our conversation about maximizing versus satisficing. We think that maximizing will bring outsize rewards that we can savor and will make us feel a different category of satisfaction. So it sounds to me like on the p

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