Doctor Mike

That's how homeostasis is supposed to work.

I mean, you're the expert on this because you're an actual physician.

But in behavioral science, it's the same thing.

It's the same actual process.

And then when your emotions reset and you realize that you can't

as Mick Jagger almost saying, you can't keep no satisfaction, then you assume that you needed more.

And it's more, more, more, more, more, all the way to the moon.

The first thing that a billionaire says after the glow from that first billion wears off, which is like a week, is I guess I needed another billion to get that feeling to last forever.

And that's a real problem.

And that's something you have to sort out.

So rich people say, yeah, it's not that great.

And poor people say, yeah, well, let me try.

But the people who are experiencing that, number one, they're right.

And number two is they actually didn't figure out how to use resources in a way that does bring lasting happiness.

And there are ways to do it.

They're just not the ways that you think of.

Yeah, so the way to understand it is to start by understanding what happiness actually is.

And the problem that people start with is that they make a bunch of mistakes.

Number one, they think they can be happy and you can't be happy.

And the reason you can't be cosmically happy, you can't, that would require a complete absence of negative emotions, which exists.