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#123 William Irvine: How To Live a Stoic Life
The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish
The Hedonistic Treadmill
We're always chasing something else. We evolved on the savannahs of africa, and those who were easily satisfied dropped out of the jean pool. But we live in a dramatically different world than those ancestors did,. The problem is over eating. Their possessions were limited to what they could carry. They didn't even have like, big cooler chests, you know, and back packs or everything else. And that was the limit. Nowa just places where you can stuff them with material thing. Once we get something, we just raise our standard. If i only had ad then you fill in the blank however you want, then at last i would live happily ever after.
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