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Have you ever noticed that what is thrilling on Monday tends to become boring on Friday? Even exciting relationships, stimulating jobs, and breathtaking works of art lose their sparkle after a while. People stop noticing what is most wonderful in their own lives. They also stop noticing what is terrible. They get used to dirty air. They stay in abusive relationships. People grow to accept authoritarianism and take foolish risks. They become unconcerned by their own misconduct, blind to inequality, and are more liable to believe misinformation than ever before.

But what if we could find a way to see everything anew? What if you could regain sensitivity, not only to the great things in your life, but also to the terrible things you stopped noticing and so don\\u2019t try to change?

Shermer and Sharot discuss: the best day of her life \\u2022 the evolutionary origins of habituation \\u2022 habituation at work, at home, and in the bedroom \\u2022 Why don\\u2019t we habituate to extreme pain? \\u2022 marriage, romance, monogamy, infidelity \\u2022 depression \\u2022 depression, happiness, and variety \\u2022 negativity nias \\u2022 creativity and habituation disruption \\u2022 lying and misinformation \\u2022 illusory truth effect \\u2022 truth bias \\u2022 moral progress \\u2022 preference falsification \\u2022 pluralistic ignorance.

Tali Sharot is a professor of cognitive neuroscience at University College London and MIT.