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Hello everybody, back again with a teaching a poem and a song. And thank you for supporting

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All right, our teaching this week is on something called the Hedonic Adaptation Prevention Model

by Sheldon Bohm. And I can never say the woman's name it's spelled. L-Y-U-B-O-M-I-R-S-K-Y. So

someone else can try and pronounce that. But what's interesting is we've all heard the term Hedonic

Adaptation or if you haven't, you've at least probably heard the term Hedonic treadmill, right?

We keep wanting new and different things. We get what we want. We want more. We want more. And so

this model sort of lays out how this happens and it really comes in two major components, right?

The first is a bottom-up process in which positive emotions from positive life change to

climb over time. Essentially, you get too accustomed to the positive stimulus, taking it for granted

and considering it as the new standard or new normal. This is the person who wins the lottery and

goes back to being as happy as they were not too long after. Now it's important to note that this

is a positive thing too. This appears to be, has an evolutionary function and the positive side of

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