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#338 - Robert Wright - Psychology, Aliens & Averting The Apocalypse
Modern Wisdom
How to Enjoy Good Moments More
When people achieve something that they thought was going to give them pleasure, my favorite example is talking about holiday. It's inbuilt into the substrate of our existence that everything's just going to be a little bit more tarnished than you probably thought. So it could be a feature from natural selections point of view and a bug from the point of view of human psychology and human happiness from the beginning.
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