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6 Things You Can’t Buy On Amazon

6 Things You Can’t Buy On Amazon

Prime Week has come and gone … for now. And while there are countless questionable items you can indeed purchase on Amazon (a mini hand squirrel, anyone?), there are 6 very specific intangibles that simply cannot be bought. Not now, not ever.

On today’s show we apply the 6-Factor Model For Psychological Wellbeing to our lives for greater clarity around what actually sparks joy.

Here’s a preview:

[4:00] Connections between the fashion and beauty industries and bandaids when it comes to self-acceptance

[8:30] You can’t buy friends! 2 ways possessions keep us isolated

[12:00] What’s the opposite of keeping up with the Joneses? It’s this (and it’s also a major factor in wellness)

[16:00] 3 ways in which your possessions directly work against your own level of environmental mastery

[20:00] Here’s why you can’t underestimate the importance of personal growth

 

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While there are countless questionable items you can indeed purchase on Amazon, there are 6 very specific intangibles that simply cannot be bought. Not now, not ever. On this episode of the Sustainable Minimalists podcast: applying the 6 Factor Model For Psychological Wellbeing to our lives for greater clarity around what actually brings us joy.

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Cultural messaging and suggests you should be happy all the time. But your "happy chemicals"—dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin—evolved to motivate survival behavior, not make you happy.

In fact, unhappiness is your brain's default state.

On today's show Dr. Loretta Breuning argues that you can manage your happy chemicals when you know how they work in the state of nature, and she's here to show us how.

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[9:00] Serotonin is about social dominance. Enter comparison and competition

[13:00] Want a dose of oxytocin? Be part of a herd

[15:30] Endorphin is the brain's natural opioid. But you can habituate to it!

[18:00] Just got something you want? That flood of happiness is dopamine's doing, but dopamine runs out

[25:00] We are living in an era of immense abundance. So why aren't we happy?

 

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