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P.35 A fixation on happiness inevitably amounts to a never-ending pursuit of something else - a new house, a new relationship…And despite all of our swear and strain, we end up feeling eerily similar to how we started: inadequate. Psychologists sometimes refer to this concept as the hedonic treadmill: the idea that we are always working hard to change our life situation, but we actually never feel very different.

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