Why Your Brain Sabotages Your Own Happiness

Listen to the Hidden Brain podcast: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hidden-brain/id1028908750 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/20Gf4IAauFrfj7RBkjcWxh What if the reason success doesn't feel like success has nothing to do with what you've achieved, and everything to do with how your mind is wired? In this video, we explore what Dave Evans, a Stanford lecturer, co-author of Designing Your Life, and the engineer who led the design of Apple's first mouse, calls the arrival fallacy: why reaching a goal so rarely delivers the happiness we expect it to, the four hidden traps that keep us feeling stuck even when our lives look "right" on paper, and the one small shift in language that can change how alive your everyday life actually feels. ____ Hidden Brain, hosted by me, Shankar Vedantam, is finally on YouTube! Like my podcast, this new video series will explore the unconscious patterns driving human behavior, our choices, and our relationships. ____ FIND HIDDEN BRAIN ONLINE Website: https://www.hiddenbrain.org/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hiddenbrain/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenbrainshow Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HiddenBrain/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/hiddenbrain.bsky.social X: https://x.com/HiddenBrain Patreon/Hidden Brain+: https://www.patreon.com/HiddenBrainf