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331. Paul Zak — Immersion: The Science of the Extraordinary and the Source of Happiness

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Is Marriage Really a Good Thing?

Marriage actually makes a difference in terms of the commitment that you are in when things turn bad versus just living together where you can just bail and there's no legal consequences. I don't like a 20-year marriage or 10-year relationship or a 30-year marriage whatever yeah it's definitely going to be more intense in the beginning so we did this thing on the today show on whether people are more immersed on a blind date when they're first engaged or when they've been married for 30 years again. Chris Rock had this thing about how to keep your marriage here went through a bad divorce as well and they said you got to do two things: You got to fuck and you got

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