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Episode 3: Why Do You Get Out Of Bed In The Morning? (feat. @mystiverse )

The Sisyphus 55 Podcast

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You Go, You Got to Walk the Line Between the Familiar and the Unknown

The hedonic treadmill is the idea that we only have a certain base line of happiness. And striving for things after a certain likei if we attain a new car, we'll enjoy it initially, and then we'll reach the same level of happiness. Once we go back to that base line, it makes us kind of start wanting things again, so we keep pursuing things. It's this realization that maybe you'll never actually be fulfilled, but finding the fulfilment in the pursuit itself is probably walking the line.

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