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The Difference Between Self-Discipline and Self-Denial

Why some of us can’t bear to use the beautiful things we own

Manoush Zomorodi
Human Parts
Published in
5 min readJan 8, 2021

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I just learned the word “anhedonia.” It means the inability to experience pleasure. Writers have been using the term a lot recently (15,700 results came up when I searched for it in Google News) to describe one of Covid’s long…

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Manoush Zomorodi
Human Parts

Journalist, mom, Swiss-Persian New Yorker. Host of @NPR’s @TEDRadioHour + @ZigZagPod. Author of Bored+Brilliant. Media Entrepreneur-ish. ManoushZ.com/newsletter