Why don’t wonderful things make us happy? When I was a kid, I dreamed of a TV watch I love this idea. I was going to have, in the future, a watch that would have a little TV screen on it, so I could watch TV from anywhere. And back in the 80s and 90s, […]
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I got a comment saying quite simply that life is boring. And not just because video games are more fun, but just that life overall is boring. And I responded that well, of course, in the pandemic, in the lockdown, it’s understandable to feel a little bit extra bored, because so much of what we
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Another factor when it comes to this prison of positivity is the idea of inflation. So just like the idea in economics, if there’s more money floating around, prices will tend to be higher, because each dollar will be less significant. If you imagine there’s only one million dollars in the entire world, I mean,
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Do you ever get sick of being positive? So much of this world of self-improvement, coaching, this kind of way of thinking, where we’re trying to make our lives better, we’re trying to live better lives here. And a big part of that is really in the mindset, where we interpret things in a way
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Work sucks. Work is uncomfortable. Painful. It’s awkward. It makes us do things that we don’t want to do. We could be enjoying ourselves, pursuing pleasure, and just enjoying life. But instead, we’re working. Why? Well, there could be many answers to that question. But to me, it seems like there are some very basic
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