This means we can bounce back fairly quickly after something bad happens, but it also means that when an event brings us a lot of joy, that feeling of happiness will only last a little while.
The hedonic treadmill suggests that we are relatively stable creatures and that our happiness levels don’t fluctuate over the long term. It is a phenomenon that suggests that people’s level of happiness, after being moved in either a positive or negative direction, eventually returns to a baseline level, where it was before the experiences causing the rise or dip. The cycle of returning to a ‘normal’ level of happiness is called the hedonic treadmill. Briefly, they may have worked – but eventually your level of happiness returned to normal and you began to desire new things. 2 However, if you look around at what you already do have, there was likely a time where you thought that once you obtained those things, you’d be happier.
How often do you find yourself sitting at home, dreaming of obtaining something you desire? It could be a better job, a better car, or a better apartment, all with the accompanying thought that if you could just get it, you’d be so much happier.
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