If the endorphins you get reading the content from your list is more important for you, so be it. You decide what's important for you, and that's the definition.

So your definition would be "Everything someone does is good for them"?

That reminds me of Austrian praxeology.

Behavioral patterns that lead individuals away from their goals do exist. Such irrationality is what most of behavioral economics policy advice is all about.

It's easiest to explain with the difference in long term goals and short term decision making. There it gets obvious very fast that peoples immediate preferences do rarely reflect their stated and consistent long term preferences.

And if the list just makes me upset because the headline lied?

If a site evades my ability to disapprove and stay away from it, it should not be rewarded.