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How easy pleasures crowd out meaningful ones

I keep buying books because I love the idea of reading them but they pile up unread while I scroll my phone instead.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The path of least resistance can systematically undermine our pursuit of more substantial but effortful satisfactions.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Pleasure and its examined life?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.