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HURT SO GOOD: The Pleasures of Suffering (Paul Bloom & Susan Cain)
The Next Big Idea
Climbing Everest
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The economist george lowenstein has a wonderful paper reviewing why people mount and climb. Like endurin serious mountain climbing, it's miserable. People are continually exhausted. Theyave a headache the whole time. Frost bite is a constant risk. Doesn't even look that good f when you're doing it. It coun be immensely boring to be stuck in a tent for 24 hours,. waiting for a storm to go by. And on every account, you want documentaries like touching the void or avarice... You see how miserable people are, and yet they love it. The book goes through these different explanations for why people not just choose to suffer ta they pay an enormous amount of money,
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