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Reality is Broken:
The more we consume, acquire, and elevate our status, the harder it is to stay happy.
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Reality is Broken:
Whether it’s money, grades, promotions, popularity, attention, or just plain material things we want, scientists agree: seeking out external rewards is a sure path to sabotaging our own happiness.
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Reality is Broken:
We do autotelic work because it engages us completely, and because intense engagement is the most pleasurable, satisfying, and meaningful emotional state we can experience.
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Reality is Broken:
As long as we are regularly immersed in self-rewarding hard work, we will be happy more often than not – no matter what else is going on in our lives.
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Reality is Broken:
If we let our desire for more and more extrinsic rewards monopolize our time and attention, it prevent sus from engaging in autotelic activities that would actually increase our happiness.
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Reality is Broken:
As long as we’re focused on intrinsic and not extrinsic reward, we never run out of the raw materials for making our own happiness.
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Reality is Broken:
Compared with games, reality is unproductive. Games give us clearer missions and more satisfying, hands-on work.
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Reality is Broken:
When a clear goal is attached to a specific task… it gives us an energizing push, a sense of purpose.
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Reality is Broken:
…to be truly satisfied, we have to be able to finish our work as clearly as we started it.
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Reality is Broken:
To finish work in a satisfying way, we m just be able to see the results of our efforts as directly, immediately, and vividly as possible.
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