Mark Manson

Yeah, it's, Even if you're in your dream job, like your dream job is going to suck about 30% of the time. Like there's just no such thing. Like we all have to do taxes. Like there's just no such thing as a job that is fun every single day.

Yeah, it's, Even if you're in your dream job, like your dream job is going to suck about 30% of the time. Like there's just no such thing. Like we all have to do taxes. Like there's just no such thing as a job that is fun every single day.

Yeah, it's, Even if you're in your dream job, like your dream job is going to suck about 30% of the time. Like there's just no such thing. Like we all have to do taxes. Like there's just no such thing as a job that is fun every single day.

Yeah, it's, Even if you're in your dream job, like your dream job is going to suck about 30% of the time. Like there's just no such thing. Like we all have to do taxes. Like there's just no such thing as a job that is fun every single day.

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Sure. So when I go through this, I'm summarizing. There's a field called developmental psychology, and so I'm kind of just summarizing this entire field. But basically, the human mind develops in a series of stages. We don't just come out of the womb knowing how to drive a car.

Sure. So when I go through this, I'm summarizing. There's a field called developmental psychology, and so I'm kind of just summarizing this entire field. But basically, the human mind develops in a series of stages. We don't just come out of the womb knowing how to drive a car.

Sure. So when I go through this, I'm summarizing. There's a field called developmental psychology, and so I'm kind of just summarizing this entire field. But basically, the human mind develops in a series of stages. We don't just come out of the womb knowing how to drive a car.

Sure. So when I go through this, I'm summarizing. There's a field called developmental psychology, and so I'm kind of just summarizing this entire field. But basically, the human mind develops in a series of stages. We don't just come out of the womb knowing how to drive a car.

Sure. So when I go through this, I'm summarizing. There's a field called developmental psychology, and so I'm kind of just summarizing this entire field. But basically, the human mind develops in a series of stages. We don't just come out of the womb knowing how to drive a car.

send an email. So when we're kids, we're generally very, everything we understand about the world and understand about life is very much just derived from pleasure and pain. Toys make us happy. Candy makes us happy. falling off the bed makes us sad. We don't really think past that. Kids aren't able to think about the future. They aren't really able to reason about the past.

send an email. So when we're kids, we're generally very, everything we understand about the world and understand about life is very much just derived from pleasure and pain. Toys make us happy. Candy makes us happy. falling off the bed makes us sad. We don't really think past that. Kids aren't able to think about the future. They aren't really able to reason about the past.

send an email. So when we're kids, we're generally very, everything we understand about the world and understand about life is very much just derived from pleasure and pain. Toys make us happy. Candy makes us happy. falling off the bed makes us sad. We don't really think past that. Kids aren't able to think about the future. They aren't really able to reason about the past.

send an email. So when we're kids, we're generally very, everything we understand about the world and understand about life is very much just derived from pleasure and pain. Toys make us happy. Candy makes us happy. falling off the bed makes us sad. We don't really think past that. Kids aren't able to think about the future. They aren't really able to reason about the past.

send an email. So when we're kids, we're generally very, everything we understand about the world and understand about life is very much just derived from pleasure and pain. Toys make us happy. Candy makes us happy. falling off the bed makes us sad. We don't really think past that. Kids aren't able to think about the future. They aren't really able to reason about the past.

They aren't able to think about other people's feelings or what other people might do. It's just all they know is this is fun, this is not fun. I want to do the fun thing. As we get older, though, we start to realize things. We start to realize that Sometimes something is pleasurable now, but it causes pain later. So maybe it feels good to eat