This is why many people who have endured setbacks that seemed devastating at the time ended up as happy as (or even happier than) they originally were after they successfully adapted to them. The quality of your life will depend on the choices you make at those painful moments. The faster one appropriately adapts, the better.24 No matter what you want out of life, your ability to adapt and move quickly and efficiently through the process of personal evolution will determine your success and your happiness. If you do it well, you can change your psychological reaction to it so that what was
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This kind of relates to my "without pain there can be no pleasure" theory, but it feels like he would would think your baseline could be above/below your average? perhaps this is the beauty off continual evolution? Or the crashes do in fact balance the highs. Is my principle that human emotion auto-calibrates based on past pain and pleasure?
