{"podcast":{"title":"*“Yesterday, I Went to Mars ♡”*","slug":"yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663","podcast_index_feed_id":7106663,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/fcce555c/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://makoto-hoshino.com/","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/42313807/42313807-1729942256050-67940c9698ba4.jpg","author":"MakotowillOlympusMons","episode_count":644,"summary":"*“Yesterday, I Went to Mars ♡”* Makoto Hoshino, CEO of Makoto Co., Ltd. and Galactic Hitchhikers, shares his journey of pursuing heart-moving experiences and embracing the unknown. In 2017, he summited Everest and all Seven Summits and completed the 250km Gobi Desert Ultramarathon. His future goal: to stand atop Olympus Mons on Mars by 2049. Through this podcast, Makoto reflects on his life’s adventures, celebrating family, global friendships, and the joy of trusting intuition and living freely. Join him as he explores the excitement of breaking free from conventions","last_synced_at":"2026-08-02T02:17:25.711616+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663"},"episode":{"title":"We Are Not Built to Stay Happy — On Homeostasis and Hedonic Adaptation","slug":"we-are-not-built-to-stay-happy-on-homeostasis-and-hedonic-adaptation","published_at":"2026-06-20T11:32:40+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663/we-are-not-built-to-stay-happy-on-homeostasis-and-hedonic-adaptation","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/makotowillolympusmons/episodes/We-Are-Not-Built-to-Stay-Happy--On-Homeostasis-and-Hedonic-Adaptation-e3l1uu5","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/fcce555c/podcast/play/121747845/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-5-20%2F5f7902ff-87da-2275-8806-391570433d54.mp3","summary":"This episode looks at homeostasis — not just as a biological mechanism, but as the quiet force that pulls our emotional states back toward the middle, no matter how high or low we swing. It touches on the familiar experience of getting something we wanted, feeling the world brighten for a moment, and then watching that feeling slowly become ordinary — not because anything went wrong, but because that's simply how we're made. There's a useful side to this, too: grief and shock don't last forever, and neither does anger. But the harder truth is that genuine happiness also fades into background noise, and the mind begins reaching for the next thing that isn't quite enough. The episode also revisits the image of Beethoven counting out exactly sixty coffee beans each morning — a ritual that may have been his way of deliberately flattening his emotional swings into a steady baseline, the kind of even inner running that allowed something as vast as the Ninth Symphony to quietly take shape. A small reflection on why the moment itself still matters, and why becoming happier might be less about reaching a permanent high than about gradually nudging the center point — through all the rising and falling — toward somewhere a little more comfortable.","meta_description":"This episode looks at homeostasis — not just as a biological mechanism, but as the quiet force that pulls our emotional states back toward the middle, no…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":211,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663/episodes/we-are-not-built-to-stay-happy-on-homeostasis-and-hedonic-adaptation/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663/we-are-not-built-to-stay-happy-on-homeostasis-and-hedonic-adaptation.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}