So what are the warning signs that you might be on a hedonic treadmill and going nowhere? If you find yourself sitting on your new couch, watching your big-screen TV, with your 1,000-watt super 7.1 surround-sound system blasting, and you’re feeling lonely—that’s a warning sign. If you just spent an hour retouching photos before you posted them to your social media account, trying to make your life look a little more glamorous than it really is—that’s a warning sign. And if you find yourself wandering around your local mall, wanting something but finding nothing worth owning, bored to death,
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