032: Amit Kumar | How Money Can Buy Happiness

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2015

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Amit Kumar studies happiness at Cornell University. Can money make you happier? Is the key to happiness a newer car, bigger TV, & more electronic gadgets. That's what the ads tell us, but according to happiness expert Amit Kumar, enduring happiness is manifested through experiences. That's great news for everyone who has ripped themselves off of the couch. And though many of you undoubtedly drew that conclusion already, Kumar explains the fascinating theories behind it. www.SpartanUpPodcast.com/032

Lessons:
1. Experiences and not material goods lead to long term happiness.
2. Due to our capacity for adaptation, you can live a happy life after a negative event.
3. The “hedonic treadmill” will not sustain happiness; you will always need to “up the dose” of material goods.

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0:00.0	You're listening to SpartanUp Podcast.com where we study success and everything required to create it.
0:05.7	We interview people from all over the world that are successful, no matter how they define it. Spartan Up Podcasts.com. We've got a great team.
0:23.3	Joe DeSenna doesn't need much introduction,
0:24.8	the founder of Spartan Race,
0:26.1	but he's the one who brought us all here.
0:27.4	Thanks very much.
0:29.1	Colonel Tim Nye, anyone who's been watching the podcast
0:32.4	is very familiar with Tim but I retired special operations
0:36.0	Very pleased to have him here
0:38.1	Sefra has a great title. She is the local rewilding expert. She has a operation out here where she brings people out to tents,
0:45.0	get some back in touch with nature here in Pittsfield, Vermont.
0:47.0	Very important, we've looked at how people are really out of touch.
0:49.0	You've had about 150 people go through the program and 60 have come back.
0:53.6	We're still looking at the other 90.
0:56.6	And I'm Johnny Waiting.
0:59.6	And I'm Johnny Waiting.
1:00.2	I'm really excited about this interview because a lot of people see me as a happiness expert they call me
1:03.7	I'm more of a doctor sure okay sure yeah Dr Johnny Wade how can I how can I be happy this is a guy who's actually
1:09.7	studying that formally at Cornell University and he's not even a doctor yet.
1:13.8	Yes that's right exactly right he has not reached your status but you feel like you
1:17.6	can learn from you know I'm looking forward to learning from him.
1:20.9	We are here Spartan up the podcast at Cornell University with a
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