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The Myth of Happiness

Two Guys on Your Head

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The Climax of a Story Is Never and They Lived Happily Ever After

In order to have the energy to strive towards a goal, you have to be dissatisfied with your life as it is right now. We make an assumption that if you achieve this whole set of goals that are culturally proscribed, that at the end of the day, that's going to be the thing that allows you to live happily ever after. But we haven't spent much time as individuals, ore as a culture, or, frankly, even as a science, really understanding the kinds of things that do make people happy. It would be a shame to get to the end of that story of all that striving and all that achievement and then to say. "I'm not going to do anything

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