Did you know that research shows that the happiest Olympic medalists are the bronze medalist because they compare themselves to those who didn't meddle at all?

Meanwhile, silver medalists compared themselves to the gold medalist and are the most unhappy of the three.

But this same research found that even the majority of gold medalists suffer from clinical

depression in the three months following the achievement of their goal.

Why is this?

Right after the conversation you're about to hear with Rowdy Gaines, I read an interview

with Arthur Brooks, a professor at Harvard Business School who teaches a course on happiness,

and he shared this

research. In this article, he discussed what is called the arrival fallacy, which is the

fallacy that would explain this phenomenon with Olympic medalist. After reading this, I had to know

what Rowdy thought of this research. He said the arrival fallacy made sense because, in his words,

Your focus is so strong for so many years,

and most cases it is years,

that when it's over, you feel an emptiness.

That is so hard to describe because it takes so much out of your life and really block everything else out in your life.

But he also said this of his own gold medals.

I don't really think of it bringing me lasting happiness when I won.

The feeling of accomplishment, though, I will say last forever.

It's not something that I took for granted, and I still look back, you know, 41 years later

and think of it as something that I was very proud to have fulfilled.

I found myself thinking a lot about this.

How did Rowdy put his gold medal in Olympic success in proper perspective?

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