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Embracing Sadness in the Pursuit of Happiness

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

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Rehabilitating Sadness

Many of us will think that the big events in life, the big kind of greeting card events like marriage or having a baby are the times we're supposed to feel happiest. And often when we get there, we perhaps don't. And then we feel a sense of anti climax. We feel guilty. Often there is shame attached to it. Doctor talben shahar from harvard coined the term arrival fallacy to describe this anticlimax,. You get to the top of that mountain, it doesn't feel the way you hoped. It's very hard to remember that in normal life.

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