#443 Why “More” Ultimately Never Works
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.4 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Why “More” Ultimately Never Works
Wanting and getting ultimately never works. To fight off this insatiable urge, we can do five things. Don't compare ourselves to others. Don't compare ourselves to our previous selves. Do something for the joy of them. Be careful of hedonic adaptation. Live life with gratitude.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. Do you really want something right now? It could be a lot of different things. It could be a |
| 0:17.0 | possession like your first house or a bigger better house because now you have kids and you want them to have a backyard to play in? |
| 0:24.6 | It could be a love, finding someone to love and spend time with. It could be a new car. |
| 0:31.4 | Perhaps you could get that car that you've always wanted, |
| 0:34.0 | and then everything would be swell. |
| 0:36.6 | It could be a college admission, wanting to get into |
| 0:39.8 | the admission of a certain university, |
| 0:42.0 | knowing that if you got in there, everything would just be perfect. |
| 0:46.6 | Or it could be a negative cancer result. |
| 0:50.2 | You've been struggling with cancer now for a while and going through all these treatments, |
| 0:54.0 | and you want that report to come back and say, you're cancer-free. |
| 0:58.0 | And when it comes from us wanting things from life, that list can be long and inexhaustible. |
| 1:04.0 | But throughout life, we get what we want sometimes. |
| 1:08.0 | We really do. |
| 1:09.0 | Sometimes we get that promotion. |
| 1:10.0 | Sometimes we get that present that we've always wanted. |
| 1:13.0 | Sometimes we get our dream home. |
| 1:15.0 | We do get things once in a while. |
| 1:17.0 | And yet, it doesn't create lasting happiness. |
| 1:21.0 | Why is that? |
| 1:22.0 | Well, the truth is, when we get what we want, we do feel satisfied. We're elated. Sometimes we're just over the |
| 1:30.1 | moon with excitement because we got what want it and that sense of satisfaction that |
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