Invest In Your Life 208 // Loss of Senses Leads To Craving
Losing your sense of taste and smell actually leads to craving. This also applies to how we relate to our stuff. James is recovering from COVID and has lost his sense of taste and smell. In spite of this, his brain is still craving comfort food that he can't taste. If there was ever a time for him to be pounding kale, this is it.
Once we get the things we think we want, we lose the sensitivity to those things and crave more to bring back the joy that these things once brought us. We crave what we used to experience when we can't experience it anymore. James dives into how we lose the sensitivity to things we have and crave more.
Episode Highlights:
[03:01] With the loss of taste and smell, the things that James has been craving are still comfort foods. His brain feels comfort in comfort foods. This would be the best time for him to eat salad without dressing.
[04:22] He has a theory that the lessening of sensitivity makes you crave more of something. He's been under pressure to eat things that taste good even though he can't taste them.
[05:03] In life we experience things the same way. We lose sensitivity to the joy that those things once brought us, and we crave more.
[06:32] We have stuff, and we've lost our sensitivity to having stuff. Keep getting more and eventually you'll be able to taste that little bit of flavor.
[07:36] What are we doing with our resources that makes us crave more? What are we chasing in hopes of experiencing a sensation that was there at some point?
[08:38] Is this craving motivated by a reduction in sensitivity?
[10:44] We keep buying the new thing, but it feels almost the same as the old thing.
[12:03] People are wanting the next step up expecting it to be some type of revolutionary experience, but then they find it to feel a lot like the thing they had before.
[13:02] What is the sensation that you actually have a craving for? Try to understand what that sensation is and ask yourself how you can experience it again.
[14:07] What can I purge that is only going to perpetuate this craving for upgrades?
[16:19] If you don't want to rediscover the things you have, it's probably a clue that it's time to start purging those things.
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