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I am going through some changes lately, some of them more meaningful, some of them less.
When I think of these changes, and think about how my life will look like given them, I keep getting reminded of a research I read about in a Dan Ariely course I took via Coursera (a website offering free courses from top universities around the globe), where in the research (and excuse me if I change the data a bit as not sure I remember it exactly, it was a long time ago) they asked people how happy they think they will be one year after a major life change, one change being winning a big amount on the lottery, the other being losing of of their legs.
Well obviously the vast majority assumed they would be much happier a year after winning the lottery rather a year after losing one of their legs, but, when the researchers went and surveyed people a year after actually winning the lottery and others after actually losing one of their legs, they found out that their happiness levels were pretty much the same..
Apparently we have these defense systems, that force us to get used to any new rality, and kind of flow with it, and more over, the way we imagine we’d feel about something in the future is always ways stronger than the actual feelings about that thing in the present, for any kind of change.
It is interesting to ponder about, and that course, A Beginner’s Guide To Irrational Behavior, is highly recommended by the way.
- Wet Ingredients:
- ¾ cup fresh orange juice (from about 5 oranges)
- ½ cup pure maple syrup
- ⅓ cup oil (grapeseed, soy, sunflower, or even olive oil)
- ¼ cup apple sauce
- 1 tsp apple cider (or other) vinegar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Dry Ingredients:
- 1.5 cup whole spelt flour (210 grams)
- 1 table spoon cocoa powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ¼ tsp salt
- Optional add-ins:
- zest from the oranges
- Warm an oven to 180 C.
- Place all the "wet" ingredients in a bowl and whisk well. Add the "dry" ingredients and mix only until combined (do not over mix). *Note: Mix the muffin ingredients only when the oven is warm enough and ready for the muffins, and you have everything lined up, as a mixture that will wait for the oven will not rise.
- Fill up muffin tins ¾ way through, Top each muffin with some orange zest and place in the oven for 25 minutes (to check if ready place a toothpick in one of the muffins, if it comes out dry they are ready). Wait for the muffins to cool completely before you remove them from their tins.
- * For a vanilla orange muffins version, simply omit the cocoa powder.
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Moran