I'm Alan Alda and this is clear and vivid conversations about connecting and communicating. And the first thing that we found is that the happiest moment was 43 hours into a vacation.

From that point on, Joy started going down and dwindling.

They're still happy on day 8-76, right? They're still happy, but they're not as

happy as 43 hours in. And when we asked them, what was the happiest bit

of the whole vacation?

There was one word that they used more

than any other words, and it was a word first.

The first view of the ocean, the first cocktail, the first sun castle that I build.

You know, the second view of the ocean was quite good,

but it wasn't as good as the first.

And the second cocktail, the third cocktail, even the fifth cocktail was pretty good, but it wasn't as good as the first

cocktail. And the reason is that things that are novel are more exciting, right? But that's

you know perhaps one thing to do is take more vacations but shorter ones.

So you get more of those 43 hours in, right?

You get more of those firsts.

That's Talish charot.

She's a neuroscientist and one of the That's Talish Harut.

She's a neuroscientist, and one of the things she studied is habituation,

getting used to things to the point where they lose their luster.

Like those vacations she was just talking about. She's

co-authored a new book called Look Again, the power of noticing what was already

there. And in it she covers both the bad and the good side of habituation.

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