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The distinction between **hedonic well-being** (pleasure, positive feeling, absence of discomfort) and **eudaimonic well-being** (living in accordance with one's values, realizing human potential, meaningful engagement) is the conceptual spine of modern well-being research and the philosophical backbone of the [[deep-ambition-book-thesis]]. The two correlate but diverge — and the research shows that chasing hedonia directly produces worse hedonic outcomes than chasing eudaimonia does. This article consolidates the research lineage from Aristotle through Ryff, Waterman, Kasser & Ryan, and the h…
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