Music is usually resorted to as a form of self-therapy when youre not involved enough in what youre doing so that part of your mind needs to be distracted from what otherwise would become boring.
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And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness.
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Studying creativity is not an elite distraction, but provides one of the most exciting models for living.
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