Скачать или смотреть The Man Who Proved That Everything You Are Doing To Be Happy Is Making You Miserable — Schopenhauer

There is a version of your life that you have been imagining for as long as you can remember. Not the life you are currently living — the life that exists just ahead of it. The one populated by the specific conditions that are not yet present and that you have decided, without ever really examining the decision, are the conditions under which you will finally feel the way you have always believed you were supposed to feel. More settled. More complete. More like the person you were always trying to become. Arthur Schopenhauer looked at this imagined life — looked at the entire human project of pursuing happiness as a destination rather than inhabiting existence as a condition — and made the most uncomfortable and the most liberating argument in the history of philosophy. Not that happiness is undesirable. That the pursuit of it is the primary obstacle to it. That the specific organization of your psychological life around the future state that will finally deliver the sustained contentment that the present has so far failed to deliver is not the path to happiness. It is the mechanism that makes happiness permanently unavailable. And that the person most likely to find something genuinely worth having in this life is not the one who has pursued happiness most effectively. It is the one who has understood most clearly why the pursuit is the problem.

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