
Ep. 31: Choose A Personal Symbol
Happier with Gretchen Rubin
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How to Counter a Balance Stat in Happiness
The arrival fallacy is the idea that as soon as I get to something well then I'll be happy. And it's a fallacy because you arrive at that place but then it's just your regular ordinary life and a lot of times you're not as happy as you anticipate. So what can people do to counter a balance stat? Is it like making a thing like you know say the wedding thing like spending a lot of time organizing the photos or is it getting a new hobby? I mean what do you do? Well I think a lot of it just comes out of this thing we talk about all the time you know drilled into us by our father which is enjoy the process.
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