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#454 - Dr Rangan Chatterjee - A Doctor's Prescription For Happiness

Modern Wisdom

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Is Fame Worth the Squeeze?

In the modern world, do you want to be some one or do something? Now the two aren't mutually exclusive, of course, but they're a lot less cohesive than you might think. The goal is not to deserve fame, just be famous. Fame roots our happiness in other peop s heads. When a person is inflated with fame, the rest of us have it in our power to deflate him. To be famous is to volunteer to be a scapegoat. You're treated like a king until you screw up or people get tired of you and then you're sacrificed at the altar. We have to check our twitter engagement to measure self worth instead of the action that we took

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