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#295 - Philosophy and the Good Life

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Power of Reframing

The present value of the past is in some sense always up for grabs and amenable to you just telling yourself a better story about what it meant. I mean, people will tell you what they think about your recent or distant failures, but you're always free to decide that those failures mean something else to you. The same set of sensations in the gym with the right cognitive frame could be the best experience you have all day. But we're always in a position to do that with even really bad things in life.

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