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#67 Advice for a happy life
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Advice for a happy life is what most people want. I've said before that I don't think that optimising for happiness is what we should focus our lives on. Optimising for meaning and living a moral and upright life is preferable to optimising for happiness. I came across this article last year and thought I'd share it on the podcast because it contains some wisdom that deserves to be shared. I've added my own commentary to the article which is 👇
https://archive.ph/WarOA#selection-215.5-215.46
The transition from college to adult life is treacherous, and this is nowhere more visible than among new college graduates in their first real jobs. A few years ago, I took it upon myself to start writing tips for the young staff where I work about how to avoid doing things that would make their supervisors write them off. It began as a lark as I wrote tips with titles such as, "Excise the word 'like' from your spoken English."
But eventually, I found myself getting into the deeper waters of how to go about living a good life. At that point, I had to deal with a reality: When it comes to a life filled with deep and lasting satisfactions, most of the clichés are true. How could I make them sound fresh to a new generation? Here's how I tried.
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