Smart People Podcast

Paul Bloom - The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning

Nov 9, 2021

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How Much Meaning Do You Have in Your Life?

02:25

What Do You Want People to Understand About Suffering?

01:45

Choosing Verses Unchosen Is Important

01:48

Introduction

2min

The Science of Happiness

2min

The Pleasures of Suffering

2min

Is It a Sacrifice of Momentary Suffering?

3min

The Individuality of Suffering

2min

How Do You Define Your Life?

3min

How Much Meaning Do You Have in Your Life?

2min

Is It Just We Get Bored?

2min

You Need the Pain to Be Able to Really Appreciate the Pleasure

3min

10.

How Ginger Can Support Your Employee's Mental Health

4min

11.

Is Yours You Saling, Why?

4min

12.

Is There a Connection Between Happiness and Money?

2min

13.

We Have a High Rate of Suicides

3min

14.

The Interplay Between Evolution and Culture

2min

15.

What Do You Want People to Understand About Suffering?

2min

16.

Is There an Appetite for Meaningful Experiences?

2min

17.

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2min

18.

Is There a Natural Law to Entropy?

2min

19.

What Is It All About?

2min

20.

The Hedonic Treadmill

3min

21.

Suffering Is the Prerequisite, or at Minimum, to Happiness

2min

22.

Benign Massocism

3min

23.

Choosing Verses Unchosen Is Important

2min

24.

How to Change Your Perspective on Suffering and the Search for Meaning

3min

25.

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

2min

Paul Bloom is a professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto. He was also the Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Yale University . Paul studies how children and adults make sense of the world, with a focus on pleasure, morality, religion, fiction, and art.

Paul's newest book is The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning.

Read more about Paul at his website: paulbloom.net.

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