Tim Urban

Because why would you not think that if you didn't know what it was?

Yeah.

And so the crazy thing is that these were the same primates.

So I do know something about them.

I know in some sense what it's like to be them because I am a human as well.

And to know that this particular primate that I know what it's like to be experienced such different things.

And like this isn't, our life is not the life that this primate has experienced almost ever.

So it's just a bit strange.

Well, your scale recalibrates.

Yeah.

You know, I was saying the other day to a friend that whatever you're used to, you start to think that, oh, the people that have more than me are more fortunate.

Like, it just sounds incredible.

I would be so happy.

But you know that's not true.

Yeah.

Because you experience – what would happen is you would get these new things or you would –

get these new opportunities, and then you would get used to it.

And then you would, that's the hedonic treadmill.

You'd come back to where you are.

And likewise, though, because you think, oh my God, what if I had to, you know, have this kind of job that I never would want, or I had this kind of marriage that I never would want.