Why We Chose To Suffer With Paul Bloom

 

PSYCHOLOGY


    After listening to this podcast, I was very intrigued by the fact that this had to due with psychology in this first place! I have always found psychology to be extremely interesting and I actually took a semester of psychology my sophomore year of highschool! Anywho, I thought that taking a wider view of suffering was interesting because I have never thought of suffering in this way. One other thing that stood out to me and stuck with me was on the topic of how suffering can be a source of pleasure. This specific statement got me thinking about what are the things that I myself, and you guys, find to be pleasuring, but also has to do with you suffering; in a wider view?

    Some examples that Paul Bloom had included in this podcasts was watching scary movies and eating spicy food, but giving this question above some deeper thought, what can you come up with?

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