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Why The Things You Like Could Be Hurting Your Happiness
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3/25/2025
"Pleasure is short-lived, happiness is long-lived." Dr. Robert Lustig explains why guilty pleasures such as sugar, social media, and video games are hurting our happiness in the long-run.
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Pleasure is short-lived, happiness is long-lived.
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Pleasure is visceral, you feel it in your body.
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Happiness is ethereal, you feel it above the neck.
00:25
Pleasure is taking, happiness is giving.
00:29
Pleasure is experienced alone, happiness is usually experienced in social groups.
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Pleasure can be achieved with substances, happiness cannot be achieved with substances.
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Why should we care?
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So what?
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They both feel good.
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Well, it matters a lot.
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Because dopamine, which is the pleasure neurotransmitter, kills neurons, slowly, but kills neurons.
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Neurons like to be stimulated, that's what dopamine does, but they don't like to be bludgeoned,
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they like to be tickled.
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Chronic overstimulation of any neuron, including a dopamine neuron, will lead to cell death.
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Chronic overstimulation leads to less gain, and so you end up needing more and more to
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get less and less, and that's called tolerance, and then when the neurons start to die, that's
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called addiction.
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Serotonin does not cause cell death.
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Serotonin is not excitatory, it's inhibitory, so you can't overdose on too much happiness.
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But there's one thing that reduces serotonin, dopamine.
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So the more pleasure you seek, the more unhappy you get.
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