Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

Hello my friend.

Today I'm reading a short chapter from my book Let It Be Easy because when I found out about this concept it changed everything for me. It's called Hedonic Adaptation and I learned it from

happiness researcher Sonia Lumbioski. She's an incredible academic studying

happiness and I thought, wow, wow,

things outside of us don't make us happy.

She says up to 10% of external things, only up to 10% of those things contribute to our happiness.

It's fascinating and stay tuned too for her coming on the podcast.

Here it is my friends it's chapter 35 let it be easy as a series of just one to two page

chapters really easy to flick through and it's's called Good and Bad, you'll get used to it.

Our brains host a little known trap that we're not conscious of, but it's important to know about it. It's called Hadonic

adaptation. Let me explain. My first job paid me $28,000. Then I got a promotion to $35,000. I thought I was the highest roller in town for a day or two.

Over the course of my corporate career I earn on $50,000, then $100,000,

eventually $500,000 a year. None of which seemed terribly impressive anymore after a few months in my new salary bracket.

Very quickly, human beings become used to each new standard of living and want more.

Psychologists call this Hedonic adaptation.

Basically that's a fancy way of saying that we get used to our life changes very quickly.

Way quicker than we might think.

Don't even get me started on the iPhone upgrades. We seek every five minutes because we get used to the most recent upgrade within 24 hours.

A classic ha, trap.

I call her don adaptation, Ha!

H.A. because it is hilarious when you consider it.

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