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will accept "I didn't know that was going to be a problem." That would be perfectly acceptable. I just can't have it exist, so you need to get rid of it. Got that? All right, so I didn't even want to talk about it, but stay away from that thing. All right. Here's a study from Gilmore Health News. Pursuing happiness as a goal often fails to make people happier. Here's why I think that makes sense…

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what you should be doing, even if it doesn't look like this specific date is working out. You're chasing meaning. That's still good. If you're chasing meaning 80% of the time and then 20% of the time you're chasing pleasure, you're going to be fine. If you chased pleasure 80% of the time, you're going to be Dan Bilzerian and eventually say, you know what, turns out that sleeping with five women a day made me a lot of pleasure but not a lot of happiness. So he's trying to figure out the happiness part now.

So 80/20 is your best target. 80% trying to either be part of creating more people, you know, which is good for the world, or doing something useful, and 20% pure pleasure. Now if you don't get your 20% pure pleasure, you just will fall apart. We just require some pleasure every day. If you get too much, you won't be happy. If you get too little, you won't be happy. Happy 80/20 is a good mix. Adjust accordingly.

Well, apparently according to a report, there are ancient hot springs on Mars that reveal that the planet might have been once habitable. Wouldn't it be cool to find out that there was a whole civilization on Mars and that they built the pyramids? Here's my hypothesis on the pyramids. You ready for this? Everything about the pyramids is just recreational belief. I don't know what happened. I don't know why it seemed like all these ancient civilizations could build these giant structures and

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others couldn't. But here's one possibility: that the aliens from Mars or somewhere else who were very advanced got stranded on Earth. So they didn't have the technology to get off of Earth and get home, but they thought that someday they'd like to be found. So they used the technology they had to build the pyramids, because the pyramids are the proof that high intelligence existed on Earth a long…

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