Practicing gratitude and finding contentment in life is not a solution to all of your life’s woes, but it’s a start to appreciating what we do have, whether that’s good or bad. We should be asking what already makes me happy. This concept is incredibly complex, yet simple. So although we can continually chase more highs of happiness (drugs, sex, alcohol, fame, fortune) we can never be truly satisfied.Īnd on the polar opposite emotions from loss, heartbreak, failure are also temporary. Be content with who you are, what you haveĪnd maybe a third, and that’s somewhere in between.a British psychologist, to become the current hedonic treadmill theory. Continue to chase more levels of happiness Hedonic adaptation is the tendency of us mere humans to quickly return to a.
So where does that leave us? Understanding the Hedonic Treadmill will lead us to answering the question of, why am I so unhappy?Īssuming that the Hedonic Treadmill theory is true, it means we can do one of 2 things: Searched during October 2020, may have changed since then. The Hedonic Treadmill theory assumes that our level of happiness remains relatively the same, despite our circumstances. Yet, it doesn’t feel like I’m anymore happier knowing that. We have the world at our fingertips, robots that perform surgery, and drugs that cure most known diseases. In the midst of the technological revolution and the 21st century you would think we would be happy. More often than not, after a few weeks of playing with the new toy, the joy you felt on the first day quickly disappears and you’re back to being and feeling like your old self. a theory proposing that people stay at about the same level of happiness regardless of what happens to them - very few things make a. It’s like getting a new car, or new toy that you’ve been wanting forever. Our positive or negative life events are only short term, and we quickly return to our baseline level of happiness. It argues that our baseline of happiness or hedonic set point stays largely the same. The Hedonic Treadmill theory assumes that our level of happiness remains relatively the same, despite our circumstances.
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