Expelled, Arrested & Somehow Winning At Life - James Smith - #1170

You can spend your entire life solving your problems. Without ever feeling like you have fewer problems. And the more successful you become at improving your circumstances, the more absurd the problems you find yourself worrying about can become. So I had Martin Seligman on. Positive psychology guy. There's this thing called conservation of dysphoria.

So dysphoria, bad feelings, conservation of keeping them at the same level. So As your life gets better. Some people. Look for worries.

with a bigger magnifying glass. They make small worries bigger. So that the same amount of worries that they had in the past are what they have in the future. But because their life is better, there's actually fewer things for them to worry about. So they start inflating small things into big things. And I thought that uh you can spend your entire life solving your problems without ever feeling like you have fewer problems. Thought that was really cool. It's interesting as well. There's a concept that a single coin in a vase makes the most noise.

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