What Makes a Good Life? Lessons from an 84 Year Study on Happiness
Offline with Jon Favreau
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Is There a Hedonic Treadmill?
There's something called a hedonic treadmill. The theory is that we all have a kind of general happiness level, and that what studies find is that we keep going back to that level no matter what happens to us. A year later, the lottery winners were not much happier than they had been before they won the lottery. And the people who had been paralyzed were not much less happy than before the accident.
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