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The Progress Paradox:
…the person of achievement in any field, whether business or academics or art or sports, will always receive the special reward of respect and admiration.
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The Progress Paradox:
Nearly all well-being research supports the basic conclusion that money and material things are only weakly associated with leading a good life.
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The Progress Paradox:
Wants… can never be satisfied. The more you want, the more likely you are to feel disgruntled; the more you acquire, the more likely you are to feel controlled by your own possessions.
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The Progress Paradox:
In a kind of nature’s-revenge law, the fact that there will always be something you desire but cannot possess ensures that even the rich will never be materially satisfied…
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The Progress Paradox:
Most of what people really want in life – love, friendship, respect, family, standing, fun – is not priced and does not pass through the market.
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The Progress Paradox:
…most people would say that the most important commodity that lacks price and thus cannot be bought is love.
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The Progress Paradox:
Research… has shown that human beings are happiest around other people.
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The Progress Paradox:
Fixation on self-esteem may, in the end, only cause us to go looking for things to become upset about.
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The Progress Paradox:
People who go looking for things to become upset about rarely fail to find them.
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The Progress Paradox:
…we are born with DNA coded for discontentment, because in our past, discontent was a survival strategy.
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