Psychological
Why getting what you want doesn't make you happier?
That raise, that new apartment, that relationship status update. Before you get them, they feel like they'll change everything. After you get them? The happiness boost lasts a few weeks, maybe months. Then you're right back where you started.
We think we know what will make us happy, but our brains are lying to us.— Laurie Santos
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The thinker
Yale Happiness Researcher
Laurie Santos is a cognitive scientist and professor at Yale, where she teaches the university's most popular course ever: Psychology and the Good Life.
Based on Laurie Santos: A Simple Trick to Improve Positive Thinking | Big Think, summarised and reframed by Insights.
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