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"الملل ليس مملاً فقط. يمكن أن يكون مرعباً أيضاً. إنه يجبرنا على مواجهة أسئلة أكبر عن المعنى والغرض. لكن الملل هو أيضاً فرصة للإكتشاف والإختراع. إنه يخلق المساحة اللازمة لتشكيل فكرة جديدة، والتي بدونها سنبقى نتفاعل إلى ما لا نهاية مع المحفزات من حولنا، بدلاً من السماح لأنفسنا بأن نكون ضمن تجربتنا الحية، والخاصة".

Strong start

Chapter 2 (Cont.)
- 34% of Americans feel pain often/very often, the most of any country.
Stimulants doubled in children from 2006-2016, nearly 2/3 of American children were giving medicine for ADD symptoms.
Adults are taking more opioids, which have killed more than guns/cars in the year 2012.
“The reason we’re all miserable may be because we are working so hard to avoid being miserable.”

Chapter 2 (Cont.)
- Are we striving too much for a pain free world? Kids currently receive stars every week in grade school, but then become anxious and depressed when getting into the real world. Should we allow kids to feel some pain and go through some difficulty in safe ways? Doctors in 1900s believed some levels of pain were beneficial.
- 50% increase in new depression cases from 1990-2017

Chapter 2
- David Story, began taking adderal and anxiety medicine. Ends up getting addicted and taking 3 types of medications every single day. Becomes suicidal, wife gets pregnant and he realizes he needs change. Takes two weeks in a psych ward and turns around