📝Hedonic Treadmill

When tons of people were asked to gauge their happiness they choose 7/10 pretty much all the time.
When something major happens (good or bad), the level would drop/raise but after a short period of time would settle back at around 7.
This level 7 plays a trick with us. It makes us think that we could get this 10 if only we do a little more. But we can never reach it. Whatever we do, we get used to the new environment and get back to 7. That’s Hedonic Treadmill.
That also has another implication. Whatever our environment is, we see it as 7/10. (i.e., even if we had much worse conditions, we would have used to them and would rate 7/10)
Guarding people from harsh events makes them incapable of handling small setbacks.
If everything is good, we amplify our issues to make us slightly dissatisfied (Blue Dot Effect)
Trying to decrease pain increases sensitivity to suffering.

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