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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

The good life is painful

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

Is There Something There? Or Is It Like a Bondage?

i seems to capture a kind of deep truth. We work while with constraints. Things which are seemingly effortless often come from an extraordinary amount of work. My favorite example, not as somebdy engaged i to somebody who enjoys watching it, is a stand up commedian. Ye, the amount of practice and training and discipline would put an analytic philosopher to shame. It's engineered insanity in some ways. Exactly. I don't know it's, i think i'm highly sensitive to bulshad expressions. But actually, you know, freedom comes from constraint and discipline. And so i seems to captures a kind ofdeep truth.

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