Relationships are one of the greatest, and sometimes, THE greatest predictor of success or failure, happiness or agony. Who you choose for a partner or even to be around you on the regular, to have access to you WILL determine your threshold for pleasure and profitability.

Common culture has it backwards when it comes to minimizing pleasure.

True pleasure (i.e., satisfaction not mere stimulation) should be the greatest aim…

No one and no thing - the ruthless mantra of the driven