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3 Lessons from David Foster Wallace’s “This Is Water”

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How to Reject Your Default Setting

Foster Wallace addresses the human propensity for allowing misery to govern the banalities of day to day life. When we reject our default setting, we are letting compassion and empathy expand our world view beyond ourselves. It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow consumer hell type situation as not only meaningful, but sacred. There is no such thing as not worshipping.

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