How To Be Miserable For The Rest Of Your Life

Podcast: Charisma on Command · Charisma on Command

Opublikowano: 2026-10-31

What would make you happier? Winning the lottery? Or becoming paraplegic? What’s crazy is that a year after winning the lottery versus using the use of their legs, people from both groups rate their happiness as the same. This is called impact bias: we overestimate which things will make us happy and for how long. What’s crazy is this isn’t just a quirk of lottery winners - so many people spend their lives in a pursuit of happiness that is not that impactful and fleeting. You get the a job that y...