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#651 - Dr Mike Israetel - Can Money Actually Buy You Happiness?

Modern Wisdom

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The Implications of Optimism

"I'm not a big fan of optimism because it has that same stench of a cognitive mischaracterization of reality," he says. "It's just realism and your best shot at it is probably my best bet as to how to do things." He adds: "Because we live in such an increasingly wonderful world, realism, like we sort of just alluded to really is kind of optimism"

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