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Hey, welcome to the Daily Drive. I'm Mike Bro, and we are currently looking in a famous guy's journal,

examining five easy ways to wreck your life.

It's a book in the Old Testament of the Bible called Ecclesiastes,

and it is actually the journal of a powerful and wealthy king named Solomon,

who was looking back with honesty and regret, basically saying,

if you want to really thrive in life, if you want to really

experience deep soul satisfaction, don't do what I did. Yesterday, he introduced the first of the

five easy ways to wreck your life by telling us, if you want to really screw up your life,

you ought to let pleasure drive you. We stopped at verse three in

chapter two yesterday. Let's pick it up. Solomon goes on to say this. I also tried finding meaning

by building huge homes for myself and planting beautiful vineyards. I made gardens and parks and

filling them with all kinds of fruit trees. I built reservoirs to collect the water to irrigate my many flourishing groves.

In other words, he turned to HGTV, said, I got to have that.

Got to get those countertops, that kind of view, a nice reservoir over there,

flowing into an affinity edge pool, flowing into a 20-person hot tub,

overlooking all the horse tables

and all the vineyards, oh, that would be perfect. He became totally obsessed with all the

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