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Episode 18: Let’s Savor
Today, the art of wanting EXACTLY WHAT YOU ALREADY HAVE!!
How many of you saw Hamilton? It was on Disney+ recently! Whether or not you’ve seen it there’s a song about Hamilton saying that he has never been and never will never be satisfied. And he is quite proud of that fact actually. As you may know it proves to be true. One example, he gets an amazing wife Eliza, and one summer he is unfaithful to her. So when he said he will never be satisfied, guess what, he was exactly right and not just for himself, but for all of us. Whether or not you see yourself like Hamilton, we too will never naturally be satisfied. We are designed this way.
Our brains are equipped with something that probably helped us a lot as survivors to continually want more and more so in times of scarce resources we would survive. It’s called hedonic adaptation. Hedonic Adaptation means that once we obtain anything we get used to that thing and continue to want more.
You’ve seen movies where the richest king or the beautiful queen is unhappy because someone has something he/she wants. They’re not satisfied with what they have. No amount of money or land or beauty ever satisfies us naturally. We just eventually get used to what we have.
Remember getting a new bike or shoes as a kid and how exciting it was? Then we find ourselves months later right back to where we were. Wanting. We’d see a friend with the other new shoes you didn’t choose and somehow they looked better. Or the color of bike they had was what you actually wanted so you don’t feel quite as pleased with your bike.
It’s the same now. Even my friend who got a new house this spring admits it didn’t solve all the problems she assumed it would. She is used to having it. It’s not that exhilarating as it was on move in day. Even marriages have this phenomena. Research shows that the spike in happiness people enjoy lasts a couple of years and then couples find they’re right back to the happiness levels they were at before marriage.
So, how do we deal with this totally natural thing?
SAVORING: THE ART OF WANTING WHAT YOU ALREADY HAVE!
Dig in, this is so good.
Here’s your Doggy Bag – A SAVORING How-To Guide!
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Today, the art of wanting EXACTLY WHAT YOU ALREADY HAVE!!
How many of you saw Hamilton? It was on Disney+ recently! Whether or not you’ve seen it there’s a song about Hamilton saying that he has never been and never will never be satisfied. And he is quite proud of that fact actually. As you may know it proves to be true. One example, he gets an amazing wife Eliza, and one summer he is unfaithful to her. So when he said he will never be satisfied, guess what, he was exactly right and not just for himself, but for all of us. Whether or not you see yourself like Hamilton, we too will never naturally be satisfied. We are designed this way.
Our brains are equipped with something that probably helped us a lot as survivors to continually want more and more so in times of scarce resources we would survive. It’s called hedonic adaptation. Hedonic Adaptation means that once we obtain anything we get used to that thing and continue to want more.
You’ve seen movies where the richest king or the beautiful queen is unhappy because someone has something he/she wants. They’re not satisfied with what they have. No amount of money or land or beauty ever satisfies us naturally. We just eventually get used to what we have.
Remember getting a new bike or shoes as a kid and how exciting it was? Then we find ourselves months later right back to where we were. Wanting. We’d see a friend with the other new shoes you didn’t choose and somehow they looked better. Or the color of bike they had was what you actually wanted so you don’t feel quite as pleased with your bike.
It’s the same now. Even my friend who got a new house this spring admits it didn’t solve all the problems she assumed it would. She is used to having it. It’s not that exhilarating as it was on move in day. Even marriages have this phenomena. Research shows that the spike in happiness people enjoy lasts a couple of years and then couples find they’re right back to the happiness levels they were at before marriage.
So, how do we deal with this totally natural thing?
SAVORING: THE ART OF WANTING WHAT YOU ALREADY HAVE!
Dig in, this is so good.
Here’s your Doggy Bag – A SAVORING How-To Guide!
Savoring-How-To-GuideDownload