The hedonic treadmill is a concept called homeostasis. It's the circumstance in which any biological or emotional process always goes back to its baseline. You have to be ready to go out of your baseline to deal with an any weird circumstance. Mother Nature lies to you and says, Joe, if you make Colonel and then you make Brigadier General and then you're going to be happy, man. Then you're actually going to behappy. But Mother Nature is lying to you to keep you running.
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Many of us are success addicts and we don't even know it. Arthur C. Brooks, author of From Strength to Strength, joins the show to discuss why our brains are wired to chase achievement and how it can negatively impact our overall happiness. He also shares where we should focus our lives to find more fulfillment.