If we are not careful, our unrealistic expectations combined with quickly diminishing flow of positive emotion can drive us to continually chase new things to make us happy. We might enjoy the remodeled kitchen for a time, but what used to be new will eventually become ordinary and the happiness we gained from it will fade with time. Second, the happy moments and experiences in our lives don’t last forever. After we are done remodeling a kitchen, we might find that it didn’t make us as happy as we had hoped. First, we often expect new things or experiences to make us happier than they actually can. Hedonic adaptation can impact our happiness through two pathways. In other words, although something may make us happy (or sad) initially, we often quickly get used to those feelings and revert to our previous level of happiness. Thus, hedonic adaptation refers to our natural tendency to adjust to feelings that we experience. The term "hedonic" relates to our feelings or sensations. Did that new thing change your life? Chances are it was pretty amazing at first, but it’s also likely that the joy you first experienced didn’t last as long as you hoped it would.
Have you ever purchased something new that you really wanted, something that you were sure would make your life noticeably better? It might have been a car, a phone, clothes, or any number of things, but most of us have been in this situation before.
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