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Re:Why does culture get less happy year after year? by eunoia on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @12:01PM (#32167686)
I have a very similar crisis reaction. Acute crisis bring out the best in me. Unfortunately conversely, long slow simmering ones without agency break me over time.

Anectdote: I was very into “extreme” sports as a kid and into adulthood. I eventually took up skydiving and had quite a bit of fun with it. Met a lot of old timers with a lot of jumps under their belt. An observation really struck me talking to them: the people at the top of “extreme” sports are not really adrenaline junkies, but control freaks.

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Re:Why does culture get less happy year after year? by jareklupinski on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @12:50PM (#32168530)
> the people at the top of “extreme” sports are not really adrenaline junkies, but control freaks.

survivor's bias? :P

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Re:Why does culture get less happy year after year? by eunoia on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @01:18PM (#32169007)
Quite possibly. Skydiver culture calls for an in-depth, postmortem analysis on basically any incident. So theoretically it’s more than just dumb luck.

But that’s exactly what a control freak would say ;)

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