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that's not trying to get anything else, but just wants to be doing what it's doing that finds it's good in the activity itself. There's a wonderful book by a philosopher of Curran Cetia about the
midlife crisis. And what he calls these activities are "telic" and "atelic." So there are activities which have their ends in themselves, which are worth doing all on their own, which parts of
one's life would that feel like the culmination of one's life, where you're not looking for anything beyond what you're doing. So if you think about some examples, okay, reading or studying, you get
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