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

Something You Should Know

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Is It All Reward That Nobody Has to Work For?

You're obviously not addicted to your phone in any kind of serious way. But it gives you a tiny little window into what it might belike to be severely addicted to something, ecause it's a very similar type of trajectory. It's just much more severe and it lasts much longer for people who are severely addicted. And it is technology which has made all o these pleasurable substances more ubiquitous, more accessible, more potent and stantly novel. So if we're going to do the the time travel experiment here, what i would suggest is that 50 years from now, we will look back at the way we used these devices with horror. We will say, i cannot believe we did

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