To Be Happy, You Need to Get Used to the Pain

Because pain is as much a part of life as pleasure is.

Maarten van Doorn
Mind Cafe
Published in
6 min readOct 15, 2019

--

Lots of self-help writers these days write about how goals make you feel terrible and therefore you’re better of without them.

For example, Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, claims:

“Goal-oriented people exist in a constant…

--

--

Maarten van Doorn
Mind Cafe

Essays about why we believe what we do, how societies come to a public understanding about truth, and how we might do better (crazy times)