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A More Joyful & Less Regret-filled Way to Live | Leo Babauta

Good Life Project

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Creating Complexity as a Distraction

Creating complexity in our lives can be an unconscious coping mechanism to avoid confronting the things that terrify us. This complexity becomes a distraction, giving us things to point to as the cause of our stress, when in reality, it's a loop of complexity and stress that we have created. Simplifying our experience creates space for confronting the things we fear, which can be uncomfortable but necessary.

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