LOOK AGAIN: How to See Your Life With Fresh Eyes

The Next Big Idea

Next Big Idea Club

Self-improvement, Arts, Books, Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 21 March 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Do you ever feel like your life has become a film loop of the familiar? Maybe you sympathize with the elegiac poet Logan Roy, who said, "Nothing tastes like it used to, does it? Nothing's the same as it was." What lit you up on Monday barely sparks your interest by the weekend. But don't worry, there's nothing wrong with you. You're just experiencing what scientists call habituation, a fancy word for a phenomenon we all face. And the good news is that there's something you can do about it, methods and tools you can use to disrupt familiar patterns, jostle your needle out of its well-worn groove, and refresh the way you see and connect with the people, places, and things in your life. This process is called dishabituation — or, if you prefer, re-sparkling — and neuroscientist Tali Sharot is on the show today to teach you how to do it. Book: "Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There" Guest: Tali Sharot Host: Michael Kovnat **THE NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB** We all know that reading is the best investment we can make in ourselves, but figuring out what to read — well, that’s another matter. Which is why we started the Next Big Idea Club. We get the best new books — as chosen by our friends Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant, Susan Cain, and Daniel Pink — into the hands of curious people … like you! Join us today at nextbigideaclub.com

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0:00.0	LinkedIn presents.
0:05.0	I'm Rufus Griskum and I'm Michael Kavna.
0:08.0	And this is the next big idea.
0:11.0	Today, the power of noticing what's always there. Hi everyone. How's it going? How are things? How's your life? Mine? Thanks for asking. Things are, things are pretty good, I guess. I've got a pretty cool job a great family I got a
0:45.5	new house a few years ago and it's it's fine I guess if I'm being honest everything's
0:50.8	okay but it's not amazing not like it was when I first got married or first had a kid or first bought this house.
0:58.0	Back then, everything was fresh and kind of thrilling.
1:02.0	Now, I don't know, I guess I've just got Everything was fresh and kind of thrilling.
1:02.9	Now, I don't know, I guess I've just gotten used to things.
1:06.2	I've habituated, to use a word psychologists use.
1:10.6	It's a pretty common problem, I guess.
1:12.7	It's why we go on vacation or seek out great art to freshen our perspective.
1:18.5	Less benignly, it might be why some people have affairs or do drugs.
1:22.8	They've just gotten bored with their lives,
1:24.9	bored even with the things and people they enjoy.
1:28.2	If we could learn to dishabituate,
1:30.7	if we could look at our lives with fresh eyes, think of the benefits.
1:34.6	We might appreciate the wonders all around us, bring a little joy back into the everyday.
1:39.9	We could be more creative.
1:41.6	We might also see the bad things around us more clearly, like that messy
1:45.3	pile in the corner of the office, or more importantly, the injustices in our society.
1:51.5	Dishabituation might be a powerful tool
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