❌ The Problem With Wanting Things
Even if we were handed everything we wanted, would it really make us sustainably happy? How many times have we heard from people who got rich or famous and it wasn’t enough? Rock stars with drug problems. Lottery winners who kill themselves. There’s actually a term for this—“hedonic adaptation.” When good things happen, we bake them very quickly in
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Then there’s the problem with obtaining your heart’s desire. What next? The greater the struggle you’ve made to get something, the more you’ve sacrificed for it, the greater your disappointment will be when you win the prize and your life hasn’t fundamentally changed. Because you’ll still be you, with all your neuroses and fears and regrets, only i
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