Paul Bloom, THE SWEET SPOT: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 12 March 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Zibby is joined by psychologist and professor at the University of Toronto Paul Bloom to talk about his latest book, The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning. Paul explains the science behind why we often put ourselves in situations that are difficult and what happens when that decision backfires as well as how we feel when we achieve the result we were striving for. He also tells Zibby about how he originally got into psychology, his thoughts on how the field has evolved over time, and what project he is working on next.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zibby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
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0:41.3	Paul Bloom is the author of The Sweet Spot, the Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning.
0:46.1	Paul is a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto and Brooks and Suzanne Reagan
0:50.9	Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Yale University.
0:58.5	Paul studies how children and adults make sense of the world with special focus on pleasure,
1:00.5	morality, religion, fiction, and art.
1:03.3	He has won numerous awards for his research and teaching.
1:08.9	He has past president of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology and co-editor of Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
1:10.0	He has written for scientific journals such as nature and science and for popular outlets, such as the New York Times, The Guardian, The New Yorker, and the Atlantic Monthly.
1:17.6	He is the author of six books, including his most recent, The Sweet Spot, The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning.
1:23.6	Welcome, Paul. Thanks so much for coming on moms don't have time to read books to discuss the sweet spot, the pleasures of suffering and the search for meaning.
1:31.0	Thanks so much for having me here.
1:32.6	It's my pleasure. I actually was a psychology major at Yale back in the day and took a million classes there. So when I saw that, it was your background. I was very excited to chat.
1:43.1	Did you take my intro psych course? I took Professor Salivay's introsite course. My competition. Yeah. I don't know, though. I was there. I graduated in 98, so maybe you weren't even there yet. I don't know. I got there in 99. Oh, well, there you go. What else did you teach? I don't think I took your, I'm pretty sure I didn't take your class. I thought interesting a bunch of small seminars on different topics of interest.
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