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Envy, The Root Cause of Unhappiness

Thou shalt not covet, for gratitude will turn what you have into enough

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Dec 06, 2022
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Enough is as good as a feast. — Sir Thomas Malory

Imagine the secretary problem: you are trying to hire the best secretary out of n rankable candidates and can only make a hiring decision immediately after the interview, which are held one by one in a random, non-reversible order. This means that every candidate will be benchmarked against the quality of all previous interviews, and that you can not recall a candidate you regret not hiring. No matter who you end up hiring, your obvious dilemma is, “what if the secretary I hired is not the best?”

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