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Why Too Much Pleasure Makes You Miserable & Strategies to Achieve Financial Wellbeing

Something You Should Know

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Depression and Anxiety Are on the Rise All Over the World

The problem is that we have created a world of overwhelming abundance, where we have almost infinite access to high pleasure goods. But our brains were not evolved for this world. Our brains were evolved for a world of scarcity. Because of this mismatch between our primitive brains and the world that we live in now, we've all become more unhappy, mor anxious, more depressed.

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