

Perhaps the good would be, you just won, again a $100 million jackpot. They've done research on this for extreme examples of good and bad. But the idea is, if something good or bad again, happens to me. I'll talk a little bit more why we're built this way as we move forward. What we're trying to do here is demystify how we work, mainly how our brains work. I would say, we just want to understand the system. Again, I don't know that anytime that I share this stuff, we should go, "Oh, this is depressing." Because I think in some sense, this is going to sound a little bit depressing. Keep this in mind because here's the thing. The theory of this hedonic treadmill states that regardless of what happens to people, good or bad, their levels of happiness will eventually return to baseline. But either way, they mean the same thing. Hedonic adaptation is what you're going to see in the psychology research. I would say, hedonic treadmill is a little bit more of a slang term. Sometimes people call it hedonic treadmill.

I also threw in this concept or this term, hedonic adaptation. If you recall, they were hedonia, eudaimonia. Last lesson, I gave you some models for happiness. Learn more about the ME-EM program at View Syllabus
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