Happiness REDEFINED
f the past few years have taught us anything, it’s that the typical avenues to happiness – travel, big gatherings, career achievements – aren’t always readily accessible. But it wouldn’t matter if they were, thanks to a pesky thing called hedonic adaptation. That’s the idea that after the initial euphoria from a new win in your life, the great mood it inspires fades over time. It’s also why winning the lottery or dating someone new can’t guarantee longterm happiness. In that way, many of us learnt we can be happier with less if we focus on the right things. And that’s a good skill to have now and in the future. Curious where your elephant of happiness is hiding? Might be in your daily grind, in the way you think about your mortality,
