Minimizing Pain, Maximizing Joy

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Minimizing Pain, Maximizing Joy

12/14/20 by Hidden Brain

Web player: https://podcastaddict.com/episode/116537402
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Life is filled with hardships and tragedies — a fact that 2020 has made all too clear for people across the globe. For thousands of years, philosophers have come up with strategies to help us cope with such hardship. This week on Hidden Brain, we talk with philosopher William Irvine about ancient ideas — backed by modern psychology — that can help us manage disappointment and misfortune.

Just got home

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I went out for my evening walk early. Less cold than I expected, I was over dressed. Saw a lot of people while I was out walking. Snow just started by the time I got home, had some coca and frozen bananas and then sat down upstairs and read some more of the Foxfire book on my phone while listening to the background music record.

Covered up Big Red

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I figured this snow isn't going to be real icy so make it easy for cleaning off the snow from the cap come tomorrow so I can have solar panel cranking out a trickle charge when the sun comes back out. 

Taken on Wednesday December 16, 2020 at Big Red.

20th century

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The Twentieth Century is here, bellowing like a bull; but in quieter coves, families still make do with what they have—or do without. It’s a big country, ours is. – Foxfire Book, Volume 1 Pg 134