Morgan Housel

That when we bought the house, it was like, oh, this is going to be so great.

Can you imagine we're going to get to do this and get to do that?

And we have these neighbors and whatnot.

And you become accustomed to that very quickly.

And then your gaze shifts a little bit higher.

And you're like, yeah, but-

Look at that house over there.

That one's nicer, isn't it?

That's always the natural thing.

And that's dopamine at work.

That is dopamine purely at work.

Because the truth is our previous house was great.

And our previous house used to be our dream.

You tell yourself, once I get there, then I'll be good.

Then that's enough.

And it's a fallacy because you know that's not true.

As soon as you get to that, whatever that mountaintop is, there's another mountain above it.

It pushes you in a way that is not easy.

Like nobody should pretend that you can just go do this today, but it pushes you into appreciating what you have now and finding your joy, finding your happiness through other things that don't have the arrival fallacy.

Never have as I, as a parent,