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Time and Attention

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Deeper happiness is found at lower levels of mental stimulation

The podcast hosts discuss the concept of novelty bias and how our level of mental stimulation affects our happiness. They emphasize the importance of finding deeper happiness at lower levels of stimulation and highlight the role of novelty in determining the height of stimulation. They also mention other variables such as salience and genetics, but stress that novelty is a key factor in the digital realm. The hosts encourage listeners to spend dedicated time reading an article to prove to themselves the impact of different levels of stimulation on their mind.

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