Humans quickly adapt to new situations. Novelty wears off faster than we expect. When we imagine becoming a lottery winner, we envision only the wondrous things we’d do with our winnings. We don’t anticipate the constant harassments of people wanting our money, the complexities of managing it, or the new strains it causes on our social networks and family (so much so that lottery winners actually set up support groups with one another).17 Nor do we expect, as a quadriplegic, that so much joy could come from things we previously took for granted. As we re-learn even the most basic tasks, we
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