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The reason why humans today have such a tough time feeling happy often, and instead flock to devices and distractions, is because we don’t have existential dangers staring us in the face every day.
Can you imagine back in the day what it was like? You’ve just escaped a tiger attack. Your tribe figured out how to kill the tiger and use it for food. You are incredibly relieved that the danger is gone AND you have food for the foreseeable future.
How would you live the next day? My guess is you’d be REALLY HAPPY and REALLY THANKFUL to be around.
Repeat this ALL THE TIME until you die. That’s how we used to live.
We don’t have this anymore, and so we seek it out with whatever distraction will help us replicate this feeling. And now we have millions upon millions of people in developed nations struggling to figure out why they feel the way the feel.
My opinion? We haven’t taken enough risks to make our survival existential. We haven’t triggered our survival mechanism that makes us feel grateful.
We should be taking WAY more risks.
Do you agree?
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