Have you ever returned from that marvelous vacation only to come home and find that no one is interested in hearing about your amazing adventures? Research has shown that it goes deeper than jealousy and there is a social price to pay for your extraordinary experiences.
Share to twitterIt is a common complaint of veteran long-term travelers everywhere. You return for a visit to your home town, excited to tell friends your tales of hiking the Camino de Santiago or the amazing oysters you sucked fresh from the sea in Cancale, France; and no one cares. You expect your friends would be excited about how you witnessed the Abu Simbel Sun Festival in Egypt or
In their paper, “The Unforeseen Costs of Extraordinary Experience,” Harvard Psychologists Gus Cooney, Daniel T. Gilbert, and Timothy D. Wilson discuss how exceptional experiences makes us both “alien and enviable.” As the authors observed, “At worst, people may be envious and resentful of those who have had an extraordinary experience, and at best, they may find themselves with little to talk about.
Before they watched the videos, the researchers told everyone which they were going to see: the entertaining street-magician, or the crummy cartoon. Then the groups all reassembled and talked a bit before again being separated and asked two questions.
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