
The Sweet Spot
The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning
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Sean Patrick Hopkins
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Paul Bloom
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From the author of Against Empathy comes a different kind of happiness book, one that shows us how suffering is an essential source of both pleasure and meaning in our lives.
Why do we so often seek out physical pain and emotional turmoil? We go to movies that make us cry, or scream, or gag. We poke at sores, eat spicy foods, immerse ourselves in hot baths, run marathons. Some of us even seek out pain and humiliation in sexual role-play. Where do these seemingly perverse appetites come from?
Drawing on groundbreaking findings from psychology and brain science, The Sweet Spot shows how the right kind of suffering sets the stage for enhanced pleasure. Pain can distract us from our anxieties and help us transcend the self. Choosing to suffer can serve social goals; it can display how tough we are or, conversely, can function as a cry for help. Feelings of fear and sadness are part of the pleasure of immersing ourselves in play and fantasy and can provide certain moral satisfactions. And effort, struggle, and difficulty can, in the right contexts, lead to the joys of mastery and flow.
But suffering plays a deeper role as well. We are not natural hedonists - a good life involves more than pleasure. People seek lives of meaning and significance; we aspire to rich relationships and satisfying pursuits, and this requires some amount of struggle, anxiety, and loss. Brilliantly argued, witty, and humane, Paul Bloom shows how a life without chosen suffering would be empty - and worse than that, boring.
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Discover the books that have already changed the lives of millions. This award-winning, unabridged guide to the "literature of possibility" surveys 50 of the all-time classics, giving you their key ideas, insights, and applications, everything you need to know to start benefiting from these legendary works.
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Surprisingly Interesting
- De Cathy en 10-15-06
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Bozo Sapiens
- Why to Err Is Human
- De: Michael Kaplan, Ellen Kaplan
- Narrado por: Victor Bevine
- Duración: 9 h y 46 m
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Our species, it appears, is hardwired to get things wrong in myriad different ways. Why did recipients of a loan offer accept a higher rate of interest when a pretty woman's face was printed on the flyer? Why did one poll on immigration find the most despised aliens were ones from a group that did not exist? What made four of the Air Force's best pilots fly their planes, in formation, straight into the ground?
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A tour de force
- De Ivan en 07-05-11
De: Michael Kaplan, y otros
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The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking
- How Irrational Beliefs Keep Us Happy, Healthy, and Sane
- De: Matthew Hutson
- Narrado por: Matthew Hutson, Don Hagen
- Duración: 9 h y 33 m
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In this witty and perceptive debut, a former editor at Psychology Today shows us how magical thinking makes life worth living. Psychologists have documented a litany of cognitive biases and explained their positive functions. Now, Matthew Hutson shows us that even the most hardcore skeptic indulges in magical thinking all the time - and it's crucial to our survival. Drawing on evolution, cognitive science, and neuroscience, Hutson shows us that magical thinking has been so useful to us that it's hardwired into our brains.
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Highly enjoyable
- De David R Pinsof en 05-01-12
De: Matthew Hutson
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The Mind Club
- Who Thinks, What Feels, and Why It Matters
- De: Daniel M. Wegner, Kurt Gray
- Narrado por: David Marantz
- Duración: 9 h y 45 m
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Nothing seems more real than the minds of other people. When you consider what your boss is thinking or whether your spouse is happy, you are admitting them into the "mind club". It's easy to assume other humans can think and feel, but what about a cow, a computer, a corporation? What kinds of minds do they have? Daniel M. Wegner and Kurt Gray are award-winning psychologists who have discovered that minds - while incredibly important - are a matter of perception.
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Who is the self in me? Am I part of something bigger?
- De Philomath en 03-24-16
De: Daniel M. Wegner, y otros
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How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life
- An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness
- De: Russ Roberts
- Narrado por: Don Hagen
- Duración: 5 h y 29 m
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In How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life, Roberts examines Smith’s forgotten masterpiece, and finds a treasure trove of timeless, practical wisdom. Smith’s insights into human nature are just as relevant today as they were 300 years ago. What does it take to be truly happy? Should we pursue fame and fortune or the respect of our friends and family? How can we make the world a better place?
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Hard to distinguish Roberts from Smith in reading
- De Amazing Customer en 03-31-15
De: Russ Roberts
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Curious?
- De: Todd Kashdan
- Narrado por: Todd Kashdan
- Duración: 6 h y 4 m
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Dead cats. That's the image many people conjure up when you mention curiosity. An image perpetuated by a dusty old proverb that has long represented the extent of our understanding of the term. This book might not put the proverb to rest, but it will flip it upside down: far from killing anything, curiosity breathes new life into almost everything it touches.
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Transformative & Engaging
- De Hans en 04-29-09
De: Todd Kashdan
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On Freedom
- Four Songs of Care and Constraint
- De: Maggie Nelson
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 10 h y 5 m
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So often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, the rhetoric of freedom both rouses and repels. Does it remain key to our autonomy, justice, and well-being, or is freedom's long star turn coming to a close? Does a continued obsession with the term enliven and emancipate, or reflect a deepening nihilism (or both)? On Freedom examines such questions by tracing the concept's complexities in four distinct realms: art, sex, drugs, and climate.
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Just great
- De Kristi Strong en 12-14-21
De: Maggie Nelson
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Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart
- 30 True Things You Need to Know Now
- De: Gordon Livingston
- Narrado por: James Jenner
- Duración: 4 h y 35 m
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Full of things we may know but have not articulated to ourselves, Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart is a gentle and generous alternative to the trial-and-error learning that makes wisdom such an expensive commodity. For everyone who feels a sense of urgency that the clock ticks and still we aren't the person we'd like to be, it offers solace, guidance, and hope.
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This guy is a straight shooter
- De Julia en 11-13-05
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The Power of Kindness 10th Anniversary Edition
- The Unexpected Benefits of Leading a Compassionate Life
- De: Piero Ferrucci
- Narrado por: Mitch Horowitz
- Duración: 7 h y 54 m
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When The Power of Kindness first appeared in 2006 it thrilled and challenged listeners with one audacious promise: Your acts of generosity and decency are the secret to a fuller, more satisfying life. Kindness is not some squishy virtue but the very key to your own happiness. With nearly 125,000 copies sold, we're celebrating the book's tenth anniversary with this new edition, featuring a complete new chapter by Piero Ferrucci on the theme of "Harmlessness", which joins his other chapters on virtues such as "Honesty", "Warmth", and "Loyalty".
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Okay, but struggled to push through.
- De Annica Smith en 01-01-25
De: Piero Ferrucci
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You Are Now Less Dumb
- How to Conquer Mob Mentality, How to Buy Happiness, and All the Other Ways to Outsmart Yourself
- De: David McRaney
- Narrado por: Don Hagen
- Duración: 8 h y 40 m
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You Are Now Less Dumb is grounded in the idea that we all believe ourselves to be objective observers of reality - except we’re not. But that's okay, because our delusions keep us sane. Expanding on this premise, McRaney provides eye-opening analyses of 15 more ways we fool ourselves every day. This smart and highly entertaining audiobook will be wowing listeners for years to come.
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Not a lot of guidance
- De A. Yoshida en 02-08-14
De: David McRaney
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The Upside of Irrationality
- The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home
- De: Dan Ariely
- Narrado por: Simon Jones
- Duración: 8 h y 18 m
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In his groundbreaking book Predictably Irrational, social scientist Dan Ariely revealed the multiple biases that lead us into making unwise decisions. Now, in The Upside of Irrationality, he exposes the surprising negative and positive effects irrationality can have on our lives. Focusing on our behaviors at work and in relationships, he offers new insights and eye-opening truths about what really motivates us on the job.
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Not as good as the first
- De Stephen en 06-20-10
De: Dan Ariely
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Come As You Are: Revised and Updated
- The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life
- De: Emily Nagoski PhD
- Narrado por: Emily Nagoski, Nicholas Boulton
- Duración: 11 h y 30 m
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For much of the 20th and 21st centuries, women’s sexuality was an uncharted territory in science, studied far less frequently - and far less seriously - than its male counterpart. That is, until Emily Nagoski’s Come As You Are, which used groundbreaking science and research to prove that the most important factor in creating and sustaining a sex life filled with confidence and joy is not what the parts are or how they’re organized but how you feel about them.
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Usless!!!
- De tammy en 03-04-21
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On Our Best Behavior
- The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good
- De: Elise Loehnen
- Narrado por: Elise Loehnen
- Duración: 11 h y 54 m
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We congratulate ourselves when we resist the donut in the office breakroom. We celebrate our restraint when we hold back from sending an email in anger. We feel virtuous when we wake up at dawn to get a jump on the day. We put others’ needs ahead of our own and believe this makes us exemplary. In On Our Best Behavior, journalist Elise Loehnen explains that these impulses—often lauded as unselfish, distinctly feminine instincts—are actually ingrained in us by a culture that reaps the benefits, via an extraordinarily effective collection of mores known as the Seven Deadly Sins.
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Autobiography in Disguise
- De Lindsey en 06-11-23
De: Elise Loehnen
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- Dongkwan Shin
- 11-10-24
Quality of the book & the reader is very high
Excellent book with good stories. The reader’s voice & tone added a value to the book.
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- Mantas
- 01-01-22
A great listen, but not too much of added value
This audiobook was hugely enjoyable, because I am very much interested in the topic and it has provided a good summary of theories on what makes people happy. However, it did not go much further beyond that. There is too little of added value provided beyond summarising (perfectly, though) ideas of others.
The narrator is excellent. For the first time I looked up on what else he is narrating, intending to pick a book based on a narrator and not on the content.
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- todd scarborough
- 07-01-22
We cannot be reminded enough!!
The Sweet spot, the Goldilock zone, the flow state is the best state in which to live. We must be ever present to be able to stay in it. When we do amazing things happen. We live life to the fullest. As with Arithmetic, English and History, learning how to live in this Flow State should be taught as a mandatory class in high school. Well done Mr. Bloom and you as well Mr. Hopkins.
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- E.M.
- 02-22-23
Balance the Risk with Reward
Paul Bloom hits the nail on the proverbial head with his lucid and well supported approach to appreciating the pain in the process as a compliment to the level of satisfaction with the outcome.
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- Wayne
- 11-06-21
Intriguing
Professor Paul Bloom presents lots to contemplate while elaborating with data and logic on his claim that suffering is essential to both pleasure and meaning in our lives. I cannot recall prior to The Sweet Spot ever before listening to a book a second time immediately after finishing it. Sean Patrick Hopkins does an excellent job f narrating this fascinating book.
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- Gayle Scroggs, PhD, PCC
- 11-17-21
Why do we suffer gladly?
Bloom relies on data, anecdotes, common sense, and persuasion to make the case for multiple motivations for what we chose to suffer. While some of his conclusions won't surprise you, the details can be fascinating and even quirky.
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- Justin Archuleta-lujan
- 06-22-22
Smooth philosophical read
This book was very good. The way the author explained the many meanings of life and how everyone perceived it was very good. Definitely recommend!
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- KellysHero718
- 05-06-23
Couldn't Finish It
I tried awfully hard to like this book, as I have a general sense that the author's position is correct, but the book is mostly anecdotal drivel rather than science or anything like it. Greta Thunberg was one of the first "experts" quoted and I never got past that, despite trying. A pox on it.
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- Zuzana
- 12-01-21
Very pretty - and somewhat empty
The premise of this book is that "it will tell you what you didn't know you already knew". This is on the nose. I don't recall much new that I learned from it. BUT, the writing is GREAT, there's plenty research cited, the arguments are sound and the narration is top notch. The pig was completely satisfied, Socrates not so much.
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- 11-12-21
Great insights ! Great narrator
This is a very erudite deep work the author who dissects the issues with studies and examples. I would have loved to hear a little bit more of the commentary and insights. I did seem to get lost in the studies and maybe a little frustrated as the writer tried to conclude at the end of the chapter with multiple points of view which seemed a little confusing as it was done how scientists do..a little reluctant to make clean conclusions. Maybe the author was trying to find a sweet spot in trying to land the arguments. I would have appreciated more directness like Nassim Nicholas Taleb not as bold but a little more. This is a great piece of work so I have no qualms in recommending but this is not for every one. Great narrator.
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