The Hedonic Treadmill In A Nutshell

The hedonic treadmill was first described in a 1971 essay entitled Hedonic Relativism and Planning the Good Society.

The authors described a tendency for people to keep a stable baseline level of happiness despite positive or negative external events.

The hedonic treadmill, therefore, is a theory positing that people repeatedly return to a baseline level of happiness, irrespective of what happens to them.

— WA /25 🧵

The Hedonic Treadmill of life

You can run as fast as you want and accumulate all the riches you can, yet you will remain stuck at your natural and usual state of happiness, because the riches you gain will simply raise your expectations and leave you no better off than you were before.

— WA /26 🧵

Things get worse before they get better. Just keep going.

— @.LIVEpositivity /27 🧵

You can learn a lot about something by trying to write down what you think you know.

— @.fchollet /28 🧵

We cannot empty the mind by thinking. Only by observation.

— Robert Adams /29 🧵

You already know what it feels like to give up.

Try seeing what happens when you don't.

— @.FitFounder /30 🧵

If the only prayer you ever say is thank you, that will be enough.

— Meister Eckhart /31 🧵

You Need Only 5 Hobbies

✅ One to make you money
✅ One to keep you in shape
✅ One to stay creative
✅ One to build knowledge
✅ One to grow your mindset

— WA /32 🧵

You have two choices, to control your mind or to let your mind control you.

— Paulo Coelho /33 🧵

To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.

— Bodhidharma /34 🧵

Karma is just you, repeating your patterns, virtues, and flaws until you finally get what you deserve.

— @.naval /35 🧵

It's unfortunate that this has happened?

No. It's fortunate that this has happened and I've remained unharmed by it.

— Marcus Aurelius /36 🧵

The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.

— Yiddish proverb /37 🧵

Workouts & nutrition to upgrade your hardware.

Books & mindfulness to upgrade your software.

— @.FitFounder /38 🧵

While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.

— Karl Popper /39 🧵

Your body begins to die when you stop testing your limits.

Your soul begins to die when you stop helping others.

Your mind begins to die when you stop asking questions.

— @.SaveYourSons /40 🧵

If you can dream it, you can do it.

— Walt Disney /41 🧵

There's nothing so useless as doing something efficiently that which should not be done at all.

— Peter Drucker /42 🧵

The state is a machine for the production and maintenance of helplessness.

— An aphorism in the style of Ludwig von Mises (AI generated quote) /43 🧵

When you write, you reflect.
When you reflect, you question.
When you question, you improve.

— @.SalesNotepad /44 🧵

Existence itself is magic - the rest is science.

— @.naval /45 🧵

Rowan Atkinson has claimed it's "comedy's job to offend" while criticizing cancel culture.

"It does seem to me that the job of comedy is to offend, or have the potential to offend, and it cannot be drained of that potential. Every joke has a victim. That's the definition of a joke."

— /46 🧵

Maturity is not hurting others to heal yourself and not hurting yourself to help others heal.

— @.MindTendencies2 /47 🧵

The shortest path to success is to stop looking for the shortest path to success.

— @.WrongsToWrite /48 🧵

You become 10 times more powerful when you train your boundaries to be stronger than your soft heart and your mind to be stronger than your feelings.

— @.MindTendencies2 /49 🧵

You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.

― Pema Chödrön /50 🧵

The word diet from a greek word "diaita" which means way of life.

— @.FitFounder /51 🧵

If it costs you your peace, it is too expensive.

— Paulo Coelho /52 🧵

Not bounded by our genes.
Not limited by our “coding”.

— @.ToKTeacher /53 🧵

Be selective in your battles, sometimes peace is better than being right.

— @.LIVEpositivity /54 🧵

Your job as CEO of a startup is to build a culture of execution with clear alignment on strategy that enables your team to get shit done.

— @.agazdecki /55 🧵

** How to change your mindset **

- Eliminate excuses
- Practice gratitude
- Visualize success
- Know your worth
- Quit complaining
- Forgive your past
- Make sacrifices
- Respect people
- Learn to say no
- Live in the now
- Focus more
- Want more
- Have faith

— @.bossyourday /56 🧵

Fill your brain
- Books
- Learning
- Socialization

Empty your brain
- Long walks
- Journaling
- Meditation

Use your brain
- Focus
- Writing
- Leverage

Mental energy management will make or break your creativity, productivity, and quality of life.

— @.thedankoe /57 🧵

Raise your ambitions. Lower your expectations.

The higher your ambitions, the bolder your actions.

The lower your expectations, the greater your satisfaction.

Achieve more and be happy along the way.

— James Clear /58 🧵

If you have a ten year plan, what's stopping you from doing it in two?

— Simon Sarris /59 🧵

You don’t see things the way they are.

You see things the way you are.

— @.smithhmackenzie /60 🧵

The heuristic that's most improved my life:

divorcing ideas from their owners.

If your values and beliefs must perfectly align with someone in order to consider their idea/theory/advice, you’ll miss all opportunities in life.

You have to assess them on their own merit.

— @.anilsaidso /61 🧵

Have a mind that is open to everything, and attached to nothing

— Tilopa /62 🧵

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.

— Marcus Aurelius /63 🧵

Change is never painful, only the resistance to change is painful.

― Buddha /64🧵