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...it pointed to an alternative approach, a __egative path_ to happiness, that entailed taking a radically different stance towards those things that most of us spend our lives trying to avoid. It involved learning to enjoy uncertainty, embracing insecurity, stopping trying to think positively, becoming familiar with failure, even learning to value death. In short, all these people seemed to agree that in order to be truly happy, we might actually need to be willing to experience more negative emotions__r, at the very least to learn to stop running quite so hard from them.
Oliver Burkeman The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
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...it pointed to an alternative approach, a __egative path_ to happiness, that entailed taking a radically different stance towards those things that most of us spend our lives trying to avoid. It involved learning to enjoy uncertainty, embracing insecurity, stopping trying to think positively, becoming familiar with failure, even learning to value death. In short, all these people seemed to agree that in order to be truly happy, we might actually need to be willing to experience more negative emotions__r, at the very least to learn to stop running quite so hard from them.
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The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking

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