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TRAPPED IN CHAOS. Failing to grasp the Law of Rhythm makes you a passive subject of the universe's chaotic flow. Stop the Hedonic Treadmill by mastering this Hermetic principle. #Rhythm #ChaoticFlow #HedonicTreadmill #SpiritualLaws #Hermeticism
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You Are ENSLAVED by This Law. Most people are passive victims of the Hermetic Law of Rhythm. Learn why you are swept away by external circumstances and how to assert your Will-Power to gain mastery. #EnslavedByRhythm #WillPower #MentalMastery #SpiritualLaws #HedonicTreadmill
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Brickman & Campbell (1971) called this puzzle the Hedonic Treadmill: as a person experiences a positive emotional event, expectations and desires rise in tandem which cancels their net long-term impact, resulting in no permanent gain in happiness.
So no matter how hard one tries to gain in happiness, one will remain in the same place.
The baseline level may be identified at different points among individuals (such as neutral or positive), but is stubbornly stable within them.
The implication is disheartening. If no action durably lifts well-being, then our daily efforts seem to generate motion without progress.
Then I realized. They are not hacks to the treadmill; they are user manuals. They tell you how use the treadmill without wearing it down, not how to transcend it. For people living below their baseline, these strategies can restore functionality. But for those already running well, there may be no higher gear.
As humans, we’ll likely remain bound to our hedonic treadmills for a long time. Though if your own treadmill is intact, i.e. free from affective disorders or addiction and you are practicing fundamental well-being habits, you are already experiencing the highest sustainable average happiness humans can currently achieve. Maintenance, not optimisation, is the rational priority.
Cherish the plateau. For now, it is our summit.
Cherish the plateau. For now, it is our summit. This is a beautiful line. This whole post is relatable. In recent days, I’ve been writing and unraveling what is the next 40 years of my life going to be. It was a good reminder that hedonism cannot be a sustainable motivator.
#diminishingMarginalUtility #hedonicTreadmill #hedonism #Life #philosophy
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Brickman & Campbell (1971) called this puzzle the Hedonic Treadmill: as a person experiences a positive emotional event, expectations and desires rise in tandem which cancels their net long-term impact, resulting in no permanent gain in happiness.
So no matter how hard one tries to gain in happiness, one will remain in the same place.
The baseline level may be identified at different points among individuals (such as neutral or positive), but is stubbornly stable within them.
The implication is disheartening. If no action durably lifts well-being, then our daily efforts seem to generate motion without progress.
Then I realized. They are not hacks to the treadmill; they are user manuals. They tell you how use the treadmill without wearing it down, not how to transcend it. For people living below their baseline, these strategies can restore functionality. But for those already running well, there may be no higher gear.
As humans, we’ll likely remain bound to our hedonic treadmills for a long time. Though if your own treadmill is intact, i.e. free from affective disorders or addiction and you are practicing fundamental well-being habits, you are already experiencing the highest sustainable average happiness humans can currently achieve. Maintenance, not optimisation, is the rational priority.
Cherish the plateau. For now, it is our summit.
Cherish the plateau. For now, it is our summit. This is a beautiful line. This whole post is relatable. In recent days, I’ve been writing and unraveling what is the next 40 years of my life going to be. It was a good reminder that hedonism cannot be a sustainable motivator.
#diminishingMarginalUtility #hedonicTreadmill #hedonism #Life #philosophy
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Brickman & Campbell (1971) called this puzzle the Hedonic Treadmill: as a person experiences a positive emotional event, expectations and desires rise in tandem which cancels their net long-term impact, resulting in no permanent gain in happiness.
So no matter how hard one tries to gain in happiness, one will remain in the same place.
The baseline level may be identified at different points among individuals (such as neutral or positive), but is stubbornly stable within them.
The implication is disheartening. If no action durably lifts well-being, then our daily efforts seem to generate motion without progress.
Then I realized. They are not hacks to the treadmill; they are user manuals. They tell you how use the treadmill without wearing it down, not how to transcend it. For people living below their baseline, these strategies can restore functionality. But for those already running well, there may be no higher gear.
As humans, we’ll likely remain bound to our hedonic treadmills for a long time. Though if your own treadmill is intact, i.e. free from affective disorders or addiction and you are practicing fundamental well-being habits, you are already experiencing the highest sustainable average happiness humans can currently achieve. Maintenance, not optimisation, is the rational priority.
Cherish the plateau. For now, it is our summit.
Cherish the plateau. For now, it is our summit. This is a beautiful line. This whole post is relatable. In recent days, I’ve been writing and unraveling what is the next 40 years of my life going to be. It was a good reminder that hedonism cannot be a sustainable motivator.
#diminishingMarginalUtility #hedonicTreadmill #hedonism #Life #philosophy
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@eniko
Advertising is peak capitalism—monetized greed. It's also responsible for a LOT of environmental damage, by promoting people's insecurities to feed the #HedonicTreadmill of relentless consumption (fun fact: "consumption" is an old term for tuberculosis, first used in ancient Greece as "phthisis" to describe how the disease consumed the body, which wasted away until death). It's the first thing I'd ban, if I ruled the world... #degrowth4regrowth
#PlannedDegrowth not #PlannedObsolescence -
@eniko
Advertising is peak capitalism—monetized greed. It's also responsible for a LOT of environmental damage, by promoting people's insecurities to feed the #HedonicTreadmill of relentless consumption (fun fact: "consumption" is an old term for tuberculosis, first used in ancient Greece as "phthisis" to describe how the disease consumed the body, which wasted away until death). It's the first thing I'd ban, if I ruled the world... #degrowth4regrowth
#PlannedDegrowth not #PlannedObsolescence -
@eniko
Advertising is peak capitalism—monetized greed. It's also responsible for a LOT of environmental damage, by promoting people's insecurities to feed the #HedonicTreadmill of relentless consumption (fun fact: "consumption" is an old term for tuberculosis, first used in ancient Greece as "phthisis" to describe how the disease consumed the body, which wasted away until death). It's the first thing I'd ban, if I ruled the world... #degrowth4regrowth
#PlannedDegrowth not #PlannedObsolescence -
@eniko
Advertising is peak capitalism—monetized greed. It's also responsible for a LOT of environmental damage, by promoting people's insecurities to feed the #HedonicTreadmill of relentless consumption (fun fact: "consumption" is an old term for tuberculosis, first used in ancient Greece as "phthisis" to describe how the disease consumed the body, which wasted away until death). It's the first thing I'd ban, if I ruled the world... #degrowth4regrowth
#PlannedDegrowth not #PlannedObsolescence -
@eniko
Advertising is peak capitalism—monetized greed. It's also responsible for a LOT of environmental damage, by promoting people's insecurities to feed the #HedonicTreadmill of relentless consumption (fun fact: "consumption" is an old term for tuberculosis, first used in ancient Greece as "phthisis" to describe how the disease consumed the body, which wasted away until death). It's the first thing I'd ban, if I ruled the world... #degrowth4regrowth
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The more people have, the more they need.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/income-raise-happiness-06a70900
#Happiness #swb #hedonicAdaptation #HedonicTreadmill -
The more people have, the more they need.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/income-raise-happiness-06a70900
#Happiness #swb #hedonicAdaptation #HedonicTreadmill -
The more people have, the more they need.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/income-raise-happiness-06a70900
#Happiness #swb #hedonicAdaptation #HedonicTreadmill -
The more people have, the more they need.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/income-raise-happiness-06a70900
#Happiness #swb #hedonicAdaptation #HedonicTreadmill -
The more people have, the more they need.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/income-raise-happiness-06a70900
#Happiness #swb #hedonicAdaptation #HedonicTreadmill -
In #toddler music class yesterday, my kiddo grabbed an exciting shaker and looked rapturous; saw mine and was covetous; took mine (now one in each hand) and was delighted; and very shortly after seemed vaguely dissatisfied.
As it’s recommended that you interact with kids at her pre-verbal stage by narrating and commenting on what you see them do, I began to teach her how her experience illustrated the concept of the #HedonicTreadmill
The other parents sometimes look at me strangely.
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In #toddler music class yesterday, my kiddo grabbed an exciting shaker and looked rapturous; saw mine and was covetous; took mine (now one in each hand) and was delighted; and very shortly after seemed vaguely dissatisfied.
As it’s recommended that you interact with kids at her pre-verbal stage by narrating and commenting on what you see them do, I began to teach her how her experience illustrated the concept of the #HedonicTreadmill
The other parents sometimes look at me strangely.
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In #toddler music class yesterday, my kiddo grabbed an exciting shaker and looked rapturous; saw mine and was covetous; took mine (now one in each hand) and was delighted; and very shortly after seemed vaguely dissatisfied.
As it’s recommended that you interact with kids at her pre-verbal stage by narrating and commenting on what you see them do, I began to teach her how her experience illustrated the concept of the #HedonicTreadmill
The other parents sometimes look at me strangely.
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In #toddler music class yesterday, my kiddo grabbed an exciting shaker and looked rapturous; saw mine and was covetous; took mine (now one in each hand) and was delighted; and very shortly after seemed vaguely dissatisfied.
As it’s recommended that you interact with kids at her pre-verbal stage by narrating and commenting on what you see them do, I began to teach her how her experience illustrated the concept of the #HedonicTreadmill
The other parents sometimes look at me strangely.
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In #toddler music class yesterday, my kiddo grabbed an exciting shaker and looked rapturous; saw mine and was covetous; took mine (now one in each hand) and was delighted; and very shortly after seemed vaguely dissatisfied.
As it’s recommended that you interact with kids at her pre-verbal stage by narrating and commenting on what you see them do, I began to teach her how her experience illustrated the concept of the #HedonicTreadmill
The other parents sometimes look at me strangely.
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The feedback on burn out is to remove yourself from the hedonic treadmill of trying to chase for more.
The treadmill, however, implies the ability of the person to disembark from the chase.
What about everyone who has accountability beyond just themselves? Where the choice of disembarking has ramifications beyond their own life?
That's more of a hedonic hamster wheel, and the faster you get going, the worse the outcome.
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The feedback on burn out is to remove yourself from the hedonic treadmill of trying to chase for more.
The treadmill, however, implies the ability of the person to disembark from the chase.
What about everyone who has accountability beyond just themselves? Where the choice of disembarking has ramifications beyond their own life?
That's more of a hedonic hamster wheel, and the faster you get going, the worse the outcome.
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The feedback on burn out is to remove yourself from the hedonic treadmill of trying to chase for more.
The treadmill, however, implies the ability of the person to disembark from the chase.
What about everyone who has accountability beyond just themselves? Where the choice of disembarking has ramifications beyond their own life?
That's more of a hedonic hamster wheel, and the faster you get going, the worse the outcome.
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The feedback on burn out is to remove yourself from the hedonic treadmill of trying to chase for more.
The treadmill, however, implies the ability of the person to disembark from the chase.
What about everyone who has accountability beyond just themselves? Where the choice of disembarking has ramifications beyond their own life?
That's more of a hedonic hamster wheel, and the faster you get going, the worse the outcome.
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The feedback on burn out is to remove yourself from the hedonic treadmill of trying to chase for more.
The treadmill, however, implies the ability of the person to disembark from the chase.
What about everyone who has accountability beyond just themselves? Where the choice of disembarking has ramifications beyond their own life?
That's more of a hedonic hamster wheel, and the faster you get going, the worse the outcome.
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CW: Mood
@[email protected] It's an uphill battle against my hedonic treadmill... I need a how-to life guide. 😵🌙 #HedonicTreadmill
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CW: Mood
@[email protected] It's an uphill battle against my hedonic treadmill... I need a how-to life guide. 😵🌙 #HedonicTreadmill
