Talking with Ryan Holiday about Epicurus, Brooks dismisses the idea that satisfaction comes from having more and offers his own formula for it.
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Your animal impulse tells you that it's it's about what you have and having more, which is the Gulf Stream, et cetera, which leads to ruin, absolute personal. Talk anything else, just personal ruin because you can never have enough. It's actually better described as what you have divided by what you want. And the denominator is more important because a very efficient way to get greater satisfaction in your life is by decreasing the denominator by wanting less. And so this Epicurean notion of wanting less, wanting less, wanting less, wanting less, and watching your satisfaction rise and rise and rise, or enjoyment in this particular case. But of course, asymptotically, it doesn't work. Right.
You can't go to wanting nothing. Yeah.
Because if you want nothing, well, I mean, wanting for nothing, I suppose. That's heaven, I guess.
Right.