#196 - The Science of Happiness
Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content
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The Role of Expectation in Determining a Person's Sense of Well Being
The way you're framing an experience, and how you frame it retrospectively, the expectations you have about it going into it are more powerful in some cases than the actual experience itself for what we go through. We might have some frame about those experiences, say, before we start on Mount Everest, maybe it's a dream of ours and something we've trained for and so on. That's going to cause us in the moment to see those actually experiences, tiredness and physiological stress and fight or flight response, all that stuff. We're going to see those differently and then see them differently retrospectively. So, I think it's kind of a mess. But in some ways, I
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