It's time to hop off the hedonic treadmill.
How Starting A 'Happiness 401' Can Help You Live 8 Years Longer For eons, people have stumbled over questions about purpose, fulfillment, and what will make us truly happy. Arthur Brooks, Ph.D., the author of From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life, told us an amazing story about his experience on an airplane overhearing a conversation between an elderly husband and wife who were sitting behind him.
Getting those things feels good, so we want more and more. But once you have satisfied those basic needs, it gets a lot trickier.The other problem is society—we are inundated by misleading images of what the good life looks like, whether that is a giant yacht or a splashy book review in the New York Times . And so, we want, want, want according to what we see all around us. Humans are wanting machines, after all.
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