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🗓️ 8 April 2021
⏱️ 18 minutes
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0:00.0 | Really quickly, I just want to finish about the addiction. |
0:01.9 | I just want to mention that the idea that I also came to a conclusion through my life of trying these things. |
0:07.7 | And, you know, I was actually studying happiness in grad school formally at some point. |
0:12.0 | You know, I was going to, I was accepted to do a PhD in happiness research. |
0:14.8 | So I was like obsessed with how can I live the happiest life possible, right? |
0:19.0 | So at some point, I actually started to think that the best |
0:22.6 | way to live a happy life was to be secure financially and to literally have as much happiness |
0:28.7 | in the moment hedonic pleasure cumulatively over your life. I thought happiness is a cumulative |
0:34.1 | summation of your hedonism through time. |
0:42.5 | So little did I realize that every time you go and do something hedonistic, |
0:45.4 | including music, including sex, including everything else, |
0:49.0 | you are on a hedon what's called a hedonic treadmill, |
0:50.7 | which is what we called it in grad school. |
0:55.6 | Heedonic treadmill being every time you get a little bit more happiness, it's harder to get a bit more happy from that thing. |
0:56.7 | You need to raise the bar. |
0:58.7 | So what I realized at some point was to pursue my own happiness was not really to go party |
1:04.6 | with some friends and have some memorable moments. |
1:07.7 | I have tons of memorable moments, bro. |
1:09.8 | They don't make me happy it's I |
1:11.4 | can think about them I get nostalgic I don't get happy I missed the days I'm like |
1:15.2 | oh yeah you know those are good but it's not like I'm sitting walking around I'm like |
1:18.1 | oh remember that time I went clubbing and did this and then or you don't or that time |
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