A truly terrible job might save your life — but a tolerable one can steal it. Jonathan Doyle on Harvard professor Dan Gilbert's research into "the peculiar longevity of things not so bad": we escape awful situations fast, but stay stuck in mildly bad ones for decades, because they never hurt enough to trigger change. From a Qantas crew member who refused to settle, to the tolerable marriage, the okay job, the suboptimal health nobody addresses — and the audit question that cuts through all of it: where is your life mildly bad?
"The danger you face in life is actually not rock bottom. The real danger is comfortable enough."
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