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  "textContent": "BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM There’s a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from doing everything right. The career is advancing, the goals are being ticked off, and the productivity is real. And yet something feels off, or hollow, or impossible to name. Modern culture tends to treat this as ingratitude or a failure […]\n\nThe post The 3 needs that science says matter more than success and achievement first appeared on The Optimist Daily: Making Solutions the News.",
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