Advice sought after:
I listen to and dictate BBC programs (podcasts) to deter and delay dementia. And oftentimes I come to words and phrases which I cannot catch. It would be appreciated if you can tell me what they are saying and also correct my incorrect catching in the attempted transcript.
Thanks in advance.
BBC Why Factor: Why learn to be happy
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csytzx
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If you are someone who is always reaching for that one thing, just in distance, which is you are sure is going to be the key to your happiness, you are trapped on the hedonic treadmill.
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There are so many things that we predict ???(1)??? make us happy, when we get them ???(2)??? feel happy for ever. But what really happens when you achieve the goals we have for ourselves is that once we get the things we want, we ???(3)??? we don't like them anymore. We just start to get used to them. And that's what scientists call the hedonic treadmill.
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Yale psychology professor Laurie Santos, again.
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Every time you get something, you know, really delicious or really fantastic or you've dreamed it about for many years, you have that thing and you, kind of, just get used to it, these good things to stop delivering their goodness over time.
I use the examples of, the first time your partner says “I love you”, it's ???(4)??? amazing, you know, but last Thursday when he said I loved you, it didn't have an impact. Or the first time your child said “mummy” or “daddy” is ???(5)??? like amazing momentous occasion. But, you know, last Thursday when it said it, no big.
And that's the sad teacher of life. All good things once we get them stop being good over time. And that puts us on a kind of treadmill. We are chasing the next high all the time, not realizing that even if you get the next high, it's not going to last for as long as we would think and it's not going to as impactful or as good as we think.
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