No.1 Neuroscientist: NEW Research Explains Why Life, Work & Your Sex Life will eventually get Boring! (HOW TO STOP THIS HAPPENING) Dr. Tali Sharot

What advice would you give me to make sure that my relationship stays fresh and new and spicy? Actually there's a great study that when people the sexual desire for the partner goes up. Doctor Tally Sheridan. So you're a scientist, author, one of the world's leading researchers on emotion, decision making, and how to change our brains for the better. This is negatively affecting your life, and you don't know it. We have a study where we asked people what was your favorite part on your vacation, and we found the peak of enjoyment was 43 hours into the vacation and people used one word more than any other word and it was the word first. The first view of the ocean, the first cocktail. And then the joy goes down and down and down. Why? It's because the input into your neurons is constant. And when things are not changing, our brain just stops responding. And the problem is that even if you're living your absolute best life, great relationship, a good job, comfortable home, after a while, those things don't bring us the joy that they should. Cause when something is always in front of you, you stop attending to it.

That's true also for the not so great thing around us. Sexism, racism, cracks in our relationships. After a while we don't notice them, and if we don't notice them, we don't change them. One reason why happiness is low in midlife is because things are a little bit more routine. The problem is we really don't like risk taking. So how do we change Two main things. One is Uh

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