Adapting to Financial Changes and the Hedonic Treadmill

We all just want to be "happy," but if you don't even know what happiness is how can you possibly hope to obtain it? This question has been haunting me since I was four years old. The idea of spending most or all of my life chasing after something, only to finally capture it and realize it wasn't what I wanted terrifies me. I sincerely believe that most of the world is focused on things that aren't worth focusing on. There's a foundational, fundamental component of life that must be present for anything else to matter and most people put it on the backburner or ignore it entirely. After this episode, you'll know what it is and how to keep it in the forefront of your pursuit.