409. The Real Reason You're Disenchanted With Your Life (And How to Break the Spell)

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I had my grandbaby boys, Eli and Noah, this weekend, and watching them, I got reminded of something. Little kids are either completely enchanted with everything or completely disenchanted with everything — there's no in-between. We rode bikes in the rain, ran through mud puddles, played way too many downs of flag football with rules that kept changing, and read Green Eggs and Ham to a five-year-old who could not understand why this man kept getting asked the same question over and over. It made me realize something about why it's so much harder for us as adults to be that easily delighted. It's not because we're broken. It's because our brains are wired for it, and so is the device in our…