A Life Less Punishing is Matt's distilled wisdom on how to live a good life, where he takes several common emotions and unpacks why we feel this way and how we can change it, interspersed with personal anecdotes, plus research taken from philosophy, psychology, and interviews with experts. Each chapter takes a different emotion/reaction/concern - anger, dissatisfaction, fear, loneliness, feeling offended, stress, humiliation, greed, annoyance, boredom,...