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Alain De Botton (Replay): Life Is Not Meant To Be Perfect

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How to Get Rid of Enemies

Eause often envy overshoots its target. You think you envy the whole of a person's life, when often it's a bit of their life. Or you think that you need to be somebody else, when actually you don't. So listening out for envy, analyzing your own envy, sitting with it and going, what's it trying to tell me? Inaccurately, and probably in an exaggerated way, it's probably trying to tell us something sensible. Andbut i think it works. The enemy of sitting with your feelings is not laziness, or indeed, the phone. It's fear. We're not bad people. We're just scared. I mean,

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