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The Sweet Spot The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning

Paul Bloom

“This book will challenge you to rethink your vision of a good life. With sharp insights and lucid prose, Paul Bloom makes a captivating case that pain and suffering are essential to happiness. It’s an exhilarating antidote to toxic positivity.” —Adam Grant, #1 Why do we so often seek out physical...

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Hidden Brain

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Hidden Brain

Shankar introduced Paul Bloom as the author of The Sweet Spot, noting it among Bloom's works on pleasure and meaning.

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I'm Shankar Vedantam. Psychologist Paul Bloom is the author of The Sweet Spot, The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning.

— Episode: Ouch! That Feels Great

Episode: Ouch! That Feels Great

Shankar introduced Paul Bloom as the author of The Sweet Spot, noting it among Bloom's works on pleasure and meaning.

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I'm Shankar Vedantam. Psychologist Paul Bloom is the author of The Sweet Spot, The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning.

10% Happier with Dan Harris

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10% Happier with Dan Harris

This was mentioned as Paul Bloom's most recent book, which explores the idea that voluntary suffering can lead to pleasure or meaning in life. The book divided suffering into chosen and unchosen categories, focusing on the former.

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He's the author of six books, the most recent of which is called The Sweet Spot, the pleasures of suffering and the search for meaning.

— Episode: The Right Kind of Suffering | Paul Bloom

Episode: The Right Kind of Suffering | Paul Bloom

This was mentioned as Paul Bloom's most recent book, which explores the idea that voluntary suffering can lead to pleasure or meaning in life. The book divided suffering into chosen and unchosen categories, focusing on the former.

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He's the author of six books, the most recent of which is called The Sweet Spot, the pleasures of suffering and the search for meaning.

So the sweet spot, the pleasures of suffering and the search for meaning, the pleasures of suffering, what on earth does that mean?

And I argue that suffering is good in two ways. It could give you pleasure but could also give you meaning.

My book is about suffering you choose.

And my book is about suffering you choose. You know, you choose to engage in relates or in relationships, certain activities, unchozen suffering getting assaulted, getting hit by a car, getting cancer is pretty much bad for you.

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