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Episode 18: "Boy If Life Were Only Like This" (With Joe Henrich)

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The Weird Things We're Obsessed About

Sosso-Guys psychologists have that we're trying to maximize happiness. He says the percentage of things I do directly to increase my happiness is actually pretty low. "I put myself in very locally miserable states," he says, thinking it will fulfill a long-term goal.

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