What does it mean to live more with less? I'm Katie Wells and welcome to the Maximized Minimalist

podcast. If you found yourself caught up in the hamster wheel of modern day motherhood and want to

rewrite the script, congratulations you're in the right place. I'm here to be your guide and help you take

back your motherhood

and achieve a simpler, more joy-filled life. Cheers to being a maximized minimalist. Enjoy the show.

Welcome back to the show, friend. If you've been hanging out with me on the podcast for a while,

you probably know I love me some real housewives. And if this is one of your first episodes,

get ready because I'm going to prove that not only is real housewives helpful for mild

entertainment, but it is actually educational. That's right, at least two or three times a year.

I create episodes that help you further your declutter progress based

on what I learned from watching that reality TV series. Okay? All right, today's episode,

this is probably a term you've maybe not heard of. I didn't really learn it until about a year

ago. This is all about the hedonic treadmill. And again, if you're new here, I am obsessed with

learning about brains and the science behind how our brains work. Why? Because ultimately,

it impacts our declutter journey and our happiness in life. So I do all the research. I listen to the books, the podcast, and all

the things, and then I bring it to you. And then I combine it with some real housewives, because

why not? Okay. So the hedonic treadmill is a concept in psychology that refers to the tendency of

humans to return to their baseline level of happiness or subjective well-being, even after

experiencing significant positive or negative events or change in their circumstances.

So the idea is that people tend to adapt to changes in their lives really pretty quickly,

and that over time their level or happiness or satisfaction

with their lives tend to return to a stable level. In a nutshell, when you were on this hedonic

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