Dante had a particularly gruesome punishment for the envious: their eyes were wired shut. In this episode of Office Hours, I explore why envy is such a powerful happiness killer—and how to stop feeding it in your own life.
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Referenced:
• The Meaning of Your Life: Finding Purpose in an Age of Emptiness
• Dante’s Purgatorio, Canto 13
•Envy: An Adversarial Review and Comparison of Two Competing Views
•The Role of Subjective and Objective Social Status in the Generation of Envy
•When your gain is my pain and your pain is my gain
•Is envy harmful to a society's psychological health and wellbeing?
•Envy: Functional specificity and sex-differentiated design features
•What to Do When Social Media Inspires Envy
•Mitigating malicious envy: Why successful individuals should reveal their failures
•How gratitude inhibits envy: From the perspective of positive psychology
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