Arthur Brooks
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 11 Jul
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And that's called the arrival fallacy in behavioral science.
The arrival fallacy is that if it was really fun to make progress, it's going to be bliss when I hit my goal.
And it never is, which is why people, when they win an Olympic gold medal, they tend to fall into a clinical depression because it doesn't work that way.
Your emotions don't work to give you a permanently good day because that would put you in danger of the tiger sneaking up behind you.
It has to be transitory
as a signal that something is either good or bad for you.
So when something feels really good, it should be very momentary.
But we don't figure that out.
And the reason we don't figure that out is because Mother Nature wants us to be fooled again and again and again, so we stay in the hunt.
That's why the Kissens passed on their genes, is because they made that mistake over and over again.
But that's maladapted.
And so I have to work with a lot of people about how to maintain a higher sense of satisfaction, not by having everything that they want,
but by wanting what they have.
So in other words, your satisfaction is sort of all your haves divided by your wants.
You need to work the denominator more than the numerator.
And that goes against your animal impulses.
It speaks to your moral aspirations.
That's what every religion teaches, which is why ultimately people of faith and of serious philosophy, they can maintain satisfaction better than people who just go from fun to fun to fun thing.
That's the biggie.
That's the big one.
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