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One Day, This Dangerous Mindset Will Destroy Your Life

And the one that saves you.

Thomas Oppong

7 min read21 hours ago

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He’s a professor and the author of best-selling books on happiness. On the evening of May 31, 1987, Tal Ben-Shahar became Israel’s youngest-ever national squash champion as a teenager. He had trained for years to get there. Then he flew to London and took the Tube to a squash club in Ealing, where the world champion Jansher Khan trained. The champion didn’t know it, but Ben-Shahar had just started an apprenticeship with him. Ben-Shahar had a theory about winning. Win, and the pressure is off. Win, and happiness begins. He won, and it didn’t.…