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Hedonic Adaptation

The tendency for people to return to a relatively stable personal baseline level of happiness after both positive and negative life events, with practices like habitual optimism able to gradually raise that baseline over time.

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Hedonic Adaptation

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  • … just kind of this baseline level of happiness and you could be like at 100, you could be at zero probably more most people in between somewhere and like something amazing happens, you go way way up in happiness and then you come back to…