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Philosopher and professor Dr. Lorraine Besser reveals the missing third piece in our search for the Good Life—what she calls The Interesting—and teaches us how to cultivate it in our lives. Traditionally, philosophers and psychologists have thought of the Good Life in terms of happiness or...

The From Normal to Novelty Podcast is a dedicated to helping women discover the luxury of themselves and their personal brand to ultimate grow into, maintain, or show up as the woman they ultimately feel they're meant to be. Hosted by The Notorious N.I.A the show offers introspective and thought-provoking discussions on identifying the unique characteristics each one of us posses that sets up apart from the rest and how to use these qualities to create the life we always dreamed of living. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fromnormaltonovelty/support

Follow a crawling baby around and you’ll see that right from the beginning, nothing excites us more than something new and different. Our unique human brains are biologically primed to engage with and even generate novelty, from our ancestors’ first bow and arrow to the latest tablet computer. This “neophilia” has enabled us to thrive in a world of cataclysmic change, but now, we confront an unprecedented deluge of new things, from products to information, which has quadrupled in the past 30 years and shows no sign of slowing.