The Unnatural State of Happiness and Our Brain's Evolutionary Mismatch

We've always been a country obsessed with happiness. It was, quite literally, built into the promise of America (right there with life and liberty). But maybe you've noticed: the market for happiness content is absolutely booming, which suggests that there's a rather large market of unhappy people out there. It's almost as if our obsession with happiness is inversely correlated to our actual happiness. Why might that be? Steve, Brad, and Clay discuss, unpacking different ideas of happiness (eudaemonic vs. hedonic), how satisfaction changes over time, what the science says about when you can expect to be your happiest, and why it might be helpful to think of happiness as being like a thunderstorm.

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