On the flip side, if something good happens that makes us extremely happy, our minds will still bring us back to our base level of happiness after a while. This is a situation where hedonic adaptation is helping us. This “adaptation” helps us deal with the curveballs that life sometimes throws at us, but it can also create an internal struggle for happiness.įor example, if something terrible happens to us that makes us unhappy, our mind can adapt and, after a while, bring us back to our base happiness level. Hedonic adaptation is the habit of our happiness level returning to a stable level despite any positive or negative changes in our life. To understand the hedonic treadmill, we first have to understand hedonic adaptation.
How I Realized I Was On The Hedonic Treadmill.
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