As The New York Times reported, freudenfreude is a term made up by social scientists to describe the joy (freuden means joy in German) you feel when someone else is prospering, even if it doesn't have a direct impact on you.
Instead of feeling crushed when we discover others have arrived at some desirable destination first, we can be grateful they helped to define the path for us,
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