Very Bad Wizards

Episode 224: Hurts So Good (With Paul Bloom)

Nov 2, 2021

01:42:39

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You've Caused Harm, but It's Not Crazy

03:17

The Myth of Sisyphus

02:32

You're In, In, In

01:50

Introduction

6min

The Tulip Craze

2min

NFT

5min

Through Fire Walk With Me

4min

Better Help on Line Therapy

2min

Very Bad Wizards Podcast - Nine, Nine, Nin, Nine.

4min

Dostaevsky

3min

We're Back With the Fifth Beetle, Sau Bloom

2min

The Sweet Spot, the Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning

2min

10.

What if You Had One Question Ask a Potential Date?

2min

11.

Is Your Current Partner a Killer?

4min

12.

Silent Treatment - I Would Take a Slap in the Face

1min

13.

Isa Is a Good Creature?

2min

14.

Is It a Real Life Beheading?

3min

15.

Would Date Usxast?

2min

16.

You Dream, It's Your Dream Sponsor

5min

17.

Writing a Book, I'm Really Touched

3min

18.

You're Doing It Wrong

3min

19.

Suffering in a Pursuit of Meaning

3min

20.

The Pleasures and Value of Flow

3min

21.

I Hate Running Just for Running, You Know?

2min

22.

You Know, We Compete Against Sleep

2min

23.

Social Media Gives You a Better Namen Unrewarding Flo

3min

24.

I Love Self Binding

3min

25.

I'm All for Self Binding

3min

26.

I Have a Disagreement About Sirsipus

3min

27.

The Myth of Sisyphus

3min

28.

Is There a Difference Between a Preacher and a Slave?

2min

29.

Pain Is to Pleasure, What Suffering Is to Flourishing?

3min

30.

You've Caused Harm, but It's Not Crazy

3min

31.

You're In, In, In

2min

32.

Suffering Is Me Having to Hear Youa Ha H

3min

33.

Isn't Choosing B, at a Psychological Level, Choosing Between Two Sorts of Pleasure?

2min

34.

Are There Different Kinds of Pleasure?

2min

35.

A Million Dollars, a Thousand Dollars?

2min

36.

Are You Making an Error?

2min

37.

Is Socrates an Error?

3min

VBW favorite Paul Bloom joins us to talk about the pleasures of suffering, flow states, Sisyphus, meaning, and dating questions. Check out his new book The Sweet Spot which comes out today! Plus what are NFTs and why does everyone hate them?

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