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#298 – Susan Cain: The Power of Introverts and Loneliness

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The Need to Relieve Psychic Pain

You just see it and it's whatever can deliver you to that mode of transcendence where you're no longer purely in your own self and you're in something higher. And then my second answer is the need to relieve psychic pain. I don't know why that's just like an impulse that I have. Psychic pain is more like, like suffering of any form. What it would say. Just making the world better and less pain, less pain to go around in general. Hence, you're the sort of optimistic desire and longing for a world without sort of destruction without malevolent destruction.

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