The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning Fiction_Gift_Guide There’s the lost child who

There’s the lost child who appears to his mother as a deer that approaches her unhesitatingly at a highway rest stop

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and of his mother’s heartbreaking decision to leave her children and grandchildren so that she could be reunited with her estranged husband and retire from a life of hard labor

The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning Fiction_Gift_Guide There’s the lost child whoThis book will challenge you to rethink your vision of a good life. With sharp insights and lucid prose, Paul Bloom makes a captivating case that pain and suffering are essential to happiness. Its an exhilarating antidote to toxic positivity. Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of the TED podcast WorkLife One of Behavioral Scientist's "Notable Books of 2021" From the author of Against Empathy, a different kind of