Why Dissatisfaction Never Ends (Hedonic Adaptation)

  Everyone experiences hedonic adaptation. In other words, you get used to your emotions so quickly that they no longer have much intensity. This process is directly involved in whether you feel more or less happy and the length of time it lasts. In addition, it’s connected with how your brain reacts to different life events or, for example, how you organize your agenda. Hedonic adaptation is responsible, for you now hating a food that you used to like so much, but which you binged on. It’s also responsible for the fact that the joy of a salary increase, an…