Happiness

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What would be your utopia? If you could wake up tomorrow to utopia what would it be? Millions of dollars, living on a tropical island? Do you think it would make you happy forever?

Campbell, a social psychologist, says it wouldn’t. He argues that we would feel euphoric for a time, but would then gradually recalibrate our adaptation level and start to feel deprived when some things fall below our level of expectation.

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