How to Become a Critical Thinker (Ep. 13)
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I'm Glad I Read Into the Origins of the Gambling Addiction
"I've gone around thinking this guy was just this big brained ascetic who would gamble away all his money on purpose," he says. "What if you had just done that, thinking it would save everything? Well, i'm a little embarrassed to say this, but there have been times in my life for i've been like, should i just like let myself fail so that way i canke experience that and be more interesting as a result?" 'You don't want to teach yourself that that works, even if it did, you know,' the author adds.'There are ways to get back a little bit of that useful desperation... without doing something stupid.'
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