How Wanting Less Leads to Satisfaction - The Atlantic
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The secret to satisfaction has nothing to do with achievement, money, or stuff.
Listen − 1.0 x + Seek 0:00 41:38 This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here . I glanced into my teenage daughter’s bedroom one spring afternoon last year, expecting to find her staring absentmindedly at the Zoom screen that passed for high school during the pandemic. Instead, she was laughing uproariously at a video she had found. I asked her what she was looking at. “It’s an old man dancing like a chicken and singing,” she told me. Explore the March 2022 Issue Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. View More I came over t
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