But not long after, the novelty begins to wear off.Ī few weeks later, you see a friend with another pair that you realize you like more than your own. Then, the moment you get those sneakers, for a brief moment your happiness spikes. You are in a wanting state, preventing you from being fully content with the present. When you really want something, let’s say a new pair of sneakers, you will fall below your neutral. Think of happiness as existing on a scale, with zero as “neutral happiness”. So you can think of this concept as the adaptation of our pleasure or happiness level. Hedonic comes from the Greek word hēdonē, meaning “pleasure”. Let’s take a step back for a second and look at those words. In their extensive research on the topic, Shane Frederick and George Loewenstein (who you may remember from our post on curiosity and “priming the pump”) coined the term. Hedonic adaptation is the psychological explanation of how we end up in the rat race of life. "If you live according to nature, you will never be poor if you live according to opinion, you will never be rich." - Epicurus Tweet It!
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