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		asdasf on Feb 6, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How I Learned to Stop Procrastinating, and Love Le... You are confusing a sense of accomplishment for happiness. That suggests that you may not have felt happiness enough (or recently enough) to recognize it.

jrowen on Feb 7, 2014 [–]

Not really. He's just using a more broad (scientific?) definition of the word "goal".

Eating food every day is a goal. Getting enough sleep is a goal. Peter Gibbons in The Office has a goal to do absolutely nothing.

jrowen on Feb 7, 2014 | [–]

I meant Office Space. How embarrassing.

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