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The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning
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Readers
10/100Critics
10/100Scholars
Author:
Paul Bloom
Publisher:
Ecco
Date:
November 2, 2021
From the author of Against Empathy comes a different kind of happiness book, one that shows us how suffering is an essential source of both pleasure and meaning in our lives.
What The Reviewers Say
[Bloom's] approach to writing is resolutely unwriterly and unacademic—that’s to say, he writes as if speaking, which brings a welcome immediacy to his explorations.
[Bloom's] resources are both eclectic and intellectually stimulating.
The Sweet Spot is in many ways a case for rational suffering, a guide to making life better through the measured incorporation of pain.
In a book that is diffuse but coherent all the same, Bloom looks at numerous issues: the transitory nature of happiness, the self-inflicted pain of BDSM adepts, the hard work of writing a book or completing a degree.
