"We live in a machine that is designed to get us to neglect what's important about life."
Depression and anxiety come from how we think we're supposed to live vs. how we really should.
That quote is by way of a Johann Hari TED Talk, but the actual quote is from Tim Kasser, a psychology professor in Illinois. Here's the full TED Talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB5IX-np5fE
Ironically, I used a Hari talk one other time on this blog. It was about addiction, and paradoxically I wrote that post while sitting at a bar eating Rocket Tots.…
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