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Deprive yourself, then savour
epistemic status: first take; originally tweeted 2023-12-29
We humans are incredibly ungrateful.
Often, that prevents us from truly enjoying life in the now.
Stoicism presents an interesting solution — deprive yourself of what you love, and then savor it. Let's give this a try.
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