Burns and Happiness
The realization of how relative happiness is became very apparent to me some years ago when I was in the burn department. One day a new patient came to the burn department — Miri, a teenage girl. Miri was 17 and her…
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Adaptation
Pain decreases pain
In Chapter 6 of “The Upside of Irrationality” I wrote about the the process of adaptation, which is the process by which we get used to stuff — like pain, romantic partners, and new cars. Some of the personal experiences and experiments I…