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by
Mark Manson
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August 31, 2023 - August 12, 2025
In the 1980s, when researchers asked survey participants how many people they had discussed important personal matters with over the previous six months, the most common answer was “three.” By 2006, the most common answer was “zero.”29
Kant sort of said the same thing.11 Freud, too, except there were a lot of penises involved.12
And people are always mistaking what feels good for what is good.
This is how you go from Jesus to the Crusades, from Marxism to the gulags, from a wedding chapel to divorce court.
Because the only thing that can ever truly destroy a dream is to have it come true.