The Arrival Fallacy 🏆

2023-04-26 · Short · Ali · recording, 0:59 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Mindset, motivation and happiness · mode: Explanation and tutorial

In a Short, Ali traces the arrival fallacy to the psychologist Tal Ben-Shahar at Harvard in 2006, illustrates it with an imagined entrepreneur who becomes a millionaire at 30 and feels empty, quotes Jim Carrey, and says he does not know the answer to it.

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00:00:00 — The arrival fallacy: where it comes from, the example of Jane, Jim Carrey's words

• ★★ Ali says the arrival fallacy was first identified by the psychologist Tal Ben-Shahar in 2006, while he was teaching a course on positive psychology at Harvard. — 00:00:00
• ★★ Ali says Tal Ben-Shahar noticed that many high-achieving Harvard students were unhappy and stressed despite their accomplishments: they expected to feel happy once they reached their academic goals, and never did. — 00:00:00
• ★ In Ali's imagined example, a young entrepreneur, Jane, sacrifices relationships, health and hobbies to become a millionaire by 30, gets there, and at 30 feels empty and lost instead of fulfilled. (hypothetical) — 00:00:29
• ★★★ Ali says everyone struggles with the arrival fallacy, hoping that their next achievement will be the thing that makes them happy. — 00:00:29
• ★★ Jim Carrey (quoted): The actor Jim Carrey, quoted by Ali, wishes people could realise all their dreams of wealth and fame so that they could see it is not where they will find their sense of completion. — 00:00:29
• ★★ Asking what the answer to the arrival fallacy is, Ali says he does not know. (unsure) — 00:00:29

Mentioned

Central: arrival fallacy

Also: Harvard University · Jim Carrey · Tal Ben-Shahar

Also centred on arrival fallacy: The Arrival Fallacy 💭

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