referred to in psychology as hedonic adaption or the hedonic treadmill. Because of this baseline, sometimes things will happen to us that make us feel extra happy. And sometimes things will happen that will make us feel extra miserable. But as time passes, in both cases, regardless of any life event, most of us will return to feeling the same as we did before. Some of us have higher thresholds of happiness and positivity, but those some of us appear to be the least common among us. Even still, for those with higher thresholds, the discouraging nature of being ceaselessly destined to return to
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