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(This event is a hybrid salon. You can attend in person at Full Circle House, or connect remotely.) Can we live a good life without suffering? With sharp insights, renowned psychologist Paul Bloom captures the strangeness of being human and makes a captivating case that pain and suffering are essential to both pleasure and meaning in our lives. The conventional image of humans as purely pleasure-seeking and pain-avoiding isn’t so much wrong as incomplete, he claims. Join the debate as Bloom challenges us to rethink our vision of a good life.