Posted by linkadge on April 22, 2018, at 7:50:51
In reply to Re: TRIP8b inhibitors? Truly novel antidepressants., posted by PeterMartin on April 22, 2018, at 2:44:02
The problem is the difference between what people perceive will make them happy and what actually makes them happy.
Studies of lottery winners repeatedly show little / lasting effect of winning the lottery on overal level of happiness.
Such studies show that people (over the course of about a year) simply return to their baseline. If they were happy / go lucky, that's what they return to. If they were gouchy, that's what they return to.
It's human nature to believe that obtaining something new / better will improve happiness level. If we didn't think this way, we would not achieve much at all.
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