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Jan 2025
12m 49s

Minimum Levels of Stress

Morgan Housel
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Most people – and definitely society as a whole – seem to have a minimum level of stress. They will never be fully at ease because after solving every problem the gaze of their anxiety shifts to the next problem, no matter how trivial it is relative to previous ones.

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