The Hedonic Treadmill
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The Hedonic Treadmill
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#2I remember reading this a few years ago.
Feels good to have read this again :)
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#3Last time this was submitted, it only got 2 upvotes. That just wasn't good enough.
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#4In the way that being content is an evolutionary disaster, it makes sense that we always have an itch to scratch.
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#5Last time this was submitted, it only got 2 upvotes. That just wasn't good enough.
probably next time it'll go even higher, it just needs more and more
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#6pieter levels wrote an article about it referencing to the bilzerian interview, you'll enjoy it https://levels.io/hedonic-treadmill/
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#7I just picked up a Sole treadmill. Gonna rig it up to my desk to see if I can work and walk.
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#8pieter levels wrote an article about it referencing to the bilzerian interview, you'll enjoy it https://levels.io/hedonic-treadmill/
Thanks for sharing this, interesting.
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#9Ha! I'm familiar with the phenomenon, but I hadn't heard it described as a "treadmill" before. Most metaphors out there (eg most computer science jargon) fit well on a superficial level, but the analogy breaks down when you go deeper. But sometimes, someone comes up with a metaphor for something that's such a good fit that it just makes my day.
The Hedonic Treadmill is definitely one of those. It's not just the repetitiveness, but also the exhaustion, the endlessness, the pointlessness even to some extent. And, in some sense, maybe even the progress you can make over a long time when using a treadmill frequently. Like, you learn to embrace the pointlessness of being on a treadmill, running but going absolutely nowhere, and that insight in itself makes it so that you're not running nowhere at all. Kinda sorta.
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#10In the way that being content is an evolutionary disaster, it makes sense that we always have an itch to scratch.
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