Paul Bloom - The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning
Smart People Podcast
Suffering Is the Prerequisite, or at Minimum, to Happiness
"Too often i think that suffering, and those difficulties, in myself included, have a negative connotation," says the author. "But what your book opened my eyes to is it is the prerequisite, or at a minimum, the necessary ingredient", he adds. 'The things that make life, in some ways, the most terrible also make it the best'
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