Dr. Laurie Santos

That means you could have an amazing salary, an amazing job, amazing colleagues at work, and you stop getting the pleasure from those things because you've gotten used to it over time.

That means you could have an amazing salary, an amazing job, amazing colleagues at work, and you stop getting the pleasure from those things because you've gotten used to it over time.

Another big thing that we do is that we socially compare, right?

Another big thing that we do is that we socially compare, right?

We don't tend to think in terms of how we're doing objectively well, like if we have just over

We don't tend to think in terms of how we're doing objectively well, like if we have just over

We're all a good salary or overall good accolades or we're performing well.

We're all a good salary or overall good accolades or we're performing well.

We tend to compare ourselves with the people around us across every metric, whether it's money or material possessions or our looks or whatever.

We tend to compare ourselves with the people around us across every metric, whether it's money or material possessions or our looks or whatever.

We're constantly not thinking in terms of just getting better ourselves, but keeping up with the Joneses.

We're constantly not thinking in terms of just getting better ourselves, but keeping up with the Joneses.

And that just causes a ton of misery because many billion people on the planet, obviously on every metric we look at, somebody's going to be better than us.

And that just causes a ton of misery because many billion people on the planet, obviously on every metric we look at, somebody's going to be better than us.

And we tend to find the one person who's doing better and look to them.

And we tend to find the one person who's doing better and look to them.

And then that makes us feel crappy.

And then that makes us feel crappy.

And so these are just some biases of the mind that really mess up how happy we can feel over time because we're getting used to all the good stuff out there.

And so these are just some biases of the mind that really mess up how happy we can feel over time because we're getting used to all the good stuff out there.