„We get used to our life circumstances – both good and bad – quite quickly, and over time we essentially return to our baseline level of happiness,“ says Andrew Farr, a 22-year-old graduate of Yale University’s psychology program.
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This phenomenon is called hedonic adaptation – the tendency for our response to something to weaken over time.
Therefore, what we think should make us happy often isn’t what truly brings happiness.
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This is one of the lessons A. Farr learned while attending the popular university psychology course “The Science of Well-Being” in the spring of 2025. This course has been taught for eight years by happiness researcher Laurie Santos.
