Does avoiding misery make you happy?

It might seem like self-preservation, but the results aren’t necessarily what you’d expect In Dr Seuss’s Green Eggs and Ham , the relentlessly upbeat Sam-I-Am spends the entire book badgering a grouchy, nameless narrator into tasting the eponymous dish. He cycles through one…

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