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#033 - Carl Cederstrom - What Happens When You Dedicate A Year To Optimising Your Life & The Happiness Fantasy

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The Modern Day Obsession With Optimization

I think by the end of this, the desperately seeking book, I was left with sort of three, three theories. And the first one is that there is a deeply, there's a deep human desire to be someone else or somewhere else. The second theory is that really now we live in a time where we're expected to do these things. So I think there's a kind of commodification of life and where we really expected to.

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