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#317 - What Do We Know About Our Minds?

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Recency Effect and the Primacy Effect

It's a mistake to equate well-being with simple-minded, selfish hedonic pleasure. One lesson I take away from that is that short vacations can be immensely rewarding. What can seem like a two-short vacation to matter like three or four days can be as good as really any number of days after you've taken it.

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