I'd never heard the term "hedonic treadmill" before but I find the concept really helpful in visualizing the stagnating force that is effortlessly-earned instant gratification. Lately I've been thinking a lot about how long-range planning toward fulfilling one's goals is so much more rewarding than short-term pleasures (entertainment, drugs, etc.) so your article really encouraged me to continue thinking about this topic in order to reassess my hierarchy of values. Great article!
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Yes I have been thinking along similar lines myself. For much of my life I think I had the balance shifted in the wrong direction.
Thanks for commenting mate and so nice to see you are back.
Have you started posting again? Let me know if you do (send me a link in the chat).
I can relate - and I also realize that by emphasizing short-term rewards over long-term achievement, I'd been implementing a myopic sort of behaviorism on myself by "rewarding" my immediate successes with hedonistic escapism, which in effect paradoxically demotivated me from actually realizing those long-term goals. Anyway, your article's clearly got me thinking about all this!
I'm hoping to finally get a short post up sometime in the next few weeks, and I'll definitely send you the link! In the meantime, I'll be reading your content and catching up with whatever developments I've missed on Steemit during my absence. :) Glad to see you're still very active here.
Cool I look forward to seeing it!