Friday, August 7, 2020

The pursuit of happiness and the hedonic treadmill.

Getting off the "hedonic treadmill" briefly can enhance your pleasure when you return to whatever you deprived yourself of. 
Buying experiences rather than things fulfills this idea of pleasure and then abstinence, making for an intense enjoyment of something not routinely possible. 
"Hedonic adaptation" occurs when we have unlimited access to enjoyable things, which then no longer give us as much pleasure.




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