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

The Michael Shermer Show

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Is There a Peak in Happiness?

I think what we really want to do is curator lives or greater satisfaction a kind of a long-term thriving udaimonia and there's some interesting evidence from my lab and a number of others I mentioned in the book. When you have more of these peak immersion experiences that often happen as you said with some difficulty, it creates a craving for more of those experiences. The most important thing we can do to increase our satisfaction of life is to build high quality relationships but now we have another hurdle how good is my friendship with you or my relationship with my wife? You don't need to measure because most people will kind of figure that out.

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