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63. How Contagious Is Behavior? With Laurie Santos of “The Happiness Lab.”

No Stupid Questions

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The Hedonic Treadmill

There are times when you look around at your life in any objective sense and realize wholly schmolly, this is the best life possibly living. But then there's a gnawing sense of dissatisfaction: why am i not a ten out of ten on happiness? The hedonic treadmill means that we kind of just get used to stuff; if something objectively awesome happens, it affects our happiness for a short while. We had a fantastic guaston to talk about the hedonIC treadmill, clay cockerell.

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