Why Achievements Don’t Fulfill You! w/ Laurie Santos

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 1:08: Dan Gilbert, Dopamine, happiness, impact bias

Notable quotes from "Why Achievements Don’t Fulfill You! w/ Laurie Santos"

• We often think that happiness is like a destination, like get the promotion and then I'll be happily ever after. But of course, happiness is much more like a journey. It's much more changing over.

  about happiness · at 0:00

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

• Dan Gilbert — Person · 1 mention · first at 0:45
  Expectations are so high, often it's not nearly as good as we think. and this is something that researchers like Dan Gilbert call the impact bias. the impact of the good things…

Concepts & topics

• happiness — Concept · 1 mention · first at 0:00
• Dopamine — Concept · 1 mention · first at 0:26
  Yeah. Well, I think you get the one moment of dopamine, oh my gosh, I'm this is awesome. I get this reward. But remember that's not an objective measure, right? We're kind of comparing that.
• miss wanting — Concept · 1 mention · first at 0:39
  Accolade once we got it to what we thought it was going to be like. And because of miss wanting, because our expectations are so high, often it's not nearly as good as we…
• impact bias — Concept · 1 mention · first at 0:47
  Nearly as good as we think. and this is something that researchers like Dan Gilbert call the impact bias. the impact of the good things that we get in life are not going to be…

Full transcript with timestamps

0:00 We often think that happiness is like a destination, like get the promotion and then I'll be happily ever after. But of course, happiness is much more like a journey. It's much more changing over time. Soon as you get that good thing that you like, you might just get used to it. And so, we got to watch out for these moments of arrival. It again causes us to go for specific things that that aren't really going to make us feel as happy as we think.

0:20 What actually happens when we achieve a big milestone biologically like in our brains?

0:25 Yeah. Well, I think you get the one moment of dopamine, like, oh my gosh, like, you know, I'm like, this is awesome. I get this reward. But remember that that's not an objective measure, right? We're kind of comparing that accolade once we got it to what we thought it was going to be like. And because of miss wanting, because our expectations are so high, often it's not nearly as good as we think. Um, and this is something that researchers like Dan Gilbert call the impact bias. the impact of the good things that we get in life are not going to be as good as we think and they're not going to feel as good for as long as we think. So, it's both in the kind of magnitude of how good we think something is and then in the duration of how long we think that good thing will last and kind of give us pleasure. We're usually biased in both of

Questions about this episode

What is discussed in "Why Achievements Don’t Fulfill You! w/ Laurie Santos"?

In order: 0:00 Dan Gilbert, Dopamine, happiness, impact bias.

What is mentioned in this Young and Profiting episode?

5 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including happiness, Dopamine, miss wanting, Dan Gilbert, impact bias. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "Why Achievements Don’t Fulfill You! w/ Laurie Santos"?

The episode runs 1 min; the transcript is about 271 words in 3 timestamped sections.

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