There are times when you look around at your life in any objective sense and realize wholly schmolly, this is the best life possibly living. But then there's a gnawing sense of dissatisfaction: why am i not a ten out of ten on happiness? The hedonic treadmill means that we kind of just get used to stuff; if something objectively awesome happens, it affects our happiness for a short while. We had a fantastic guaston to talk about the hedonIC treadmill, clay cockerell.