people habituate to things that make their lives and the lives of people around them much less good than they should be. And that means that things turn gray that should be blue and red and green and orange and the celebration in the sky.

So Ferris Buehler had this great line in the movie Ferris BPeeler's day off.

He said life moves pretty fast.

If you don't stop and look around once in a while,

you could miss it.

Turns out, there is this weird quirk in human nature.

Over time, we stopped seeing and appreciating

even this stuff that was awesome when it first happened

or ended our lives.

And yes, that includes not only events and things,

but also people, those people that we say that we love and are the most

important to us and make our lives better. We end up having so many things to

celebrate so many relationships to celebrate.

Yet we find ourselves going through the motions, failing to appreciate the magic

that surrounds us.

Turns out there's a name for this phenomenon.

It's called habituation. And there are things that we can do about it.

Things that can make our lives so much better, not by having to change anything or any circumstance or

a new relationship or rotate our stuff, but rather simply by breaking the mixed blessing spell

slash curse of habituation. My guest today, Kast Sunstein, explores this

phenomenon in his fascinating new book, Look Again, the power of

noticing what was always there, co-authored with neuroscience professor Talishiro.

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