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The basic principle at play here is that anything that is enjoyable cannot be good for you. When you're young, and you do it recreationally, it is bad for you.
by startupdiscuss 9y ago
The basic principle at play here is that anything that is enjoyable cannot be good for you.
When you're young, and you do it recreationally, it is bad for you.
As you grow older, and it becomes an annoying distraction from what you want to get done, it suddenly becomes beneficial.
- averagewall 9y agoI think that's because if something's enjoyable, you'll keep on doing it until either it stops being enjoyable or it causes some problem that makes you want to stop despite the enjoyment. By then it's either bad for you and enjoyable or not enjoyable and good for you. So I think your principle is a long term equilibrium position that things end up in, not really true in the short term.
- saiya-jin 9y agoincorrect. sex. love. adventures. travelling. making friends. and so on and on and on...
- fineline 9y agoSo if one were to be in his or her late forties, say, when should one expect it to stop being enjoyable? A friend wanted to know ;)
- rorykoehler 9y agoIt depends. A friend knows for certain it can happen.
- realusername 9y agoThis principle that "anything that is enjoyable cannot be good for you" is only there I suspect as a cultural leftover of the Catholic religion, I don't think it's a worldwide thing.
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