
144 – Life is Hard, How Philosophy can Help (with Kieran Setiya)
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Is There a Craving for Variety That Gets Frustrated?
I think that change has been extremely helpful to me in dealing with my my midlife malaise as much as changing my relationship to the things I was already doing and I'm still doing. There's a there is a genuine craving for variety or novelty that gets frustrated so although this isn't something I say in the book I do feel like I've one of the effects of writing it was to come to feel like I should be a bit more adventurous in how I approach the world. It's not necessarily seeking further excellence or achievement in what you are doing but just doing something different I think is is something that we kind of unsurprisingly miss in in midlife.
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