This Is Us
The Difference Between Self-Discipline and Self-Denial
Why some of us can’t bear to use the beautiful things we own
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5 min readJan 8, 2021
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…