The Importance of Overcoming Challenges

Happiness is equals s plus c plus p, where the s is the biological set point. The other 50% we've broken down into conditions of living and problem solving. And those are things that we can influence. So buying something new to make yourself feel better actually only makes you happy for a couple of days then you're bored on the next thing. It doesn't expand the hippocampus or dopamine has a very short half life in the body.