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#1219 The Mollycoddled - Penny Locaso

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The Psychology of Happiness

Headonic adaptation has been researched and basically what they have found is that you think when you get that thing your level of happiness will elevate. But what happens? I mean, an adaptation within humans is an innate response. It's what's kept us alive. We adapt. So the science tells us those things won't make us happier. They will not re they will not elevate our baseline happiness. And for me, this is one of the challenges for people overcoming any addiction be it a more typical addiction of booze or drugs or a different kind of addiction of social media or spending dough,. You know, or it could even be fucking lollies like it's still getting a very similar biochemical

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