He sent me a friend recently Video on obtaining Red Dead Redemption 2 Running on old CRT TV Written by YouTube i Austin, which I watched clearly that I love wild technical videos that include outdated things. I expected to laugh at something that mixes reactionary and current technology, and this happened, but then the video wandered in human psychology.
I thought it would be absurd to play a modern game on such an old TV, mostly because it is. But after playing a little, I realize that as soon as you get used to it, he plays a modern game on a time outdated TV for decades only … he does not feel it different. Certainly, there is a disturbance – confirmed things from the screen – but most of the time the game was overwhelming and enjoyable on the old TV as in a contemporary.
“The human brain is really good in normalizing anything that does not directly cause us to die,” explains any Austin in the video. “Maybe your new personal computer may give you the same amount of the joy of the old computer. It is likely that your new new function will feel that it absorbs the soul like your old job, provided that you control other factors like money.”
This … it cannot be how human minds work. Can? I decided to look at psychology. (The spoiler: exactly how human brains work.)
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Psychological phenomenon known as Vicious circle It has been well documented at least the 1970s. The concept refers to how humans tend to return to the basis of happiness after positive or negative changes in their lives. There may be a height of happiness after a wedding, a promotional offer at work, or a new TV, but this is temporary – people tend to return to their previous happiness levels. The same is true about negative life changes.
An early study shows this, Posted in Personality and Social Psychology Magazine In 1978, the relative happiness of three groups examined: the winners of the lottery, the people who lived in serious car accidents, and a surveillance group. The results of the lottery winners were surprising:
The winners of the lottery and their controls did not differ greatly in their assessments from their happiness now, the extent of their happiness before winning (or, from the controls, the extent of their happiness 6 months ago), and the extent of their happiness in a few years.
Now, there was a slight difference in the study. Car accident victims did not adapt to the same range, although the study indicates that “the victims of accidents did not appear unhappy as expected.” However, the mill has been repeated in studying after studying over the years. Positive and negative changes alike tend to have a significant impact on the levels of our happiness in the short term, but over time, we return to our basic levels of happiness.
What is the relationship of this to play? Dead red redemption On an old TV? The same psychological trend in play. If you buy your dreams tomorrow, there may be a honeymoon period during which you feel that it makes your video game experience better, and it may make you happier.
After that period, you will return directly to the same level of contentment as before. In the end, you may hear about a newer and better TV, which you now want to buy in order to get the same happiness that you got from another purchase. For this reason this mill is called: You think the next purchase will only promote your happiness to end it back as it started.
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Knowing this, how can we get more satisfaction with our tools? The answer may have more time thinking about how much you enjoy things that you have already. Paper 2011 Written by Kenon M. Shieldon and Songa Liopomerski Posted in Personality and Social Psychology BulletinShow that thinking regularly about positive changes in your life – and thinking less about the virtual future changes – can help maintain the increase in happiness. From the conclusion:
In other words, due to the adaptations that were examined in the current search, the attractiveness of the car, the house or the new handbag that was brought in initially begins to fade, so that people are soon lured by buying a car, home or handbag, in an attempt to restore the initial rhetoric that was lost. However, in a world of debt expansion, resource decline, and doubtful sustainability, it seems necessary to arrest or reduce this process, so that people can learn to be satisfied with less. Our study indicates that this is a goal that can be achieved, which can be achieved when people make efforts to be grateful to what they have and continue to interact with it in a variety of surprising, and creative ways.
Details of estimating changes are not placed in creative ways, but I believe that any Austin video ends with a good weapon: sometimes it floats on your current technique for an old thing, then returns to modern technology.
Listen to me: This is what you should do. Buy two TVs: one small 720p and then one is 1080 pixels. What time you get something new, you can switch between them back and forth. The transition from one to one small one will feel nice, novel and comfortable, then moving from one small to the big that we feel like this tremendous upgrade.
I am far from a psychology expert, and I think any Austin admits the same. Given the upgrade of the doctrine of pleasure, this does not seem to be the worst idea – you can, in theory, give yourself a little happiness from trying something new regularly. You are deceiving yourself to estimate the thing you have already instead of winning for a better life if you have something better.
You don’t have to go to this extent, though. Just know that the search indicates that you will be happier in your technology if you spend more time estimate what you have and less time in a dream than you can buy it instead.