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#802 - Arthur Brooks - How To Stop Feeling Lost & Find Your True Purpose
Modern Wisdom
Exploring the Pursuit of Enduring Satisfaction and Managing Desires
The secret to enduring satisfaction lies in understanding that satisfaction is a result of the things you have divided by the things you want. While the common belief is that more money, power, pleasure, or followers lead to satisfaction, the key is in having a 'have more' strategy as well as a 'want less' strategy. By managing desires and cravings through a reverse bucket list, where ambitions are acknowledged but not attached to, one can shift control from the limbic system to the prefrontal cortex. This process involves crossing out trivial desires and ambitions, detaching from goals, and acknowledging strong opinions without being attached to them. Embracing humility and freeing oneself from attachments lead to true freedom and enduring satisfaction.
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