The Arrival Fallacy for Doctors #doctor #happiness #money

When I think of the arrival fallacy I think of this idea that once we get to a certain mark, once we achieve a certain goal that we're going to experience this exponential level of happiness and that that happiness is going to last indefinitely. And what we've seen time and time again, myself included is that for a lot of physicians that just doesn't seem to be the case. A lot of doctors sort of overestimate the amount of happiness that going to get from the increase in income and we underestimate the other factors in our lives that really have the biggest benefit or the biggest impact on our happiness. Those other factors being the people that we work with, whether or not we have the support that we desire at our job, whether or not we feel like we have control over our time or over our schedule, whether or not we can spend as much time with our kids or our family. So I think we over index on the money part and we kind of underestimate the impact of the other things.