Hacking The Hedonic Treadmill

If you’re like me, you spend most waking hours pursuing things like (money, relationships, material possessions, ice cream) that you feel will maximize your personal happiness. You may view happiness as a step chart, each new conquest providing a new overall level of happiness.
As it turns out that there is a body of research based around this principal called “Adaptation Level Theory“. Adapted by Michael Eysenck, a British psychology researcher during the late nineties, the hedonic treadmill theory compares the pursuit of happiness to a person on a treadmill, who has to keep working just to stay in the same place.










