Humans are poorly equipped to deal with success. We need challenge so we invent it in horrific ways. We could seek out positive personal challenges, tackle wider issues, or help others join us in success, but instead we invent fictional enemies and subvert our success. Knowing this, choose better.
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Musa Okwonga
One of my best friends is from a sleepy, wealthy small town in the south-west of Germany. He said, so many of my parents’ neighbours are rich and bored, with little to complain about, and they’ve radicalised themselves at dinner parties and online. In their aimlessness, they’ve bonded over hate.
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