Addiction is a progressive narrowing
of the things that bring you pleasure.
Happiness is a progressive expansion of the things that bring you pleasure. The former emerges passively.
The latter takes work.
Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D.x.comAddiction is a progressive narrowing of the things that bring you pleasure. Happiness is a progressive expansion of the things that bring you pleasure. The former emerges passively. The latter takes work.
There’s a very unfortunate paradox with happiness:
“Being happy” seems to often reduce to living in the moment. As long as you are fully engaged in the present moment, you are usually happy.
Many things we think of as bringing us happiness actually just pull us into the present moment. That... See more
Nat Eliasonx.comThe point is, true happiness has nothing to do with pleasure, because the reliance on feeling good from such intensely stimulating things only moves us further from real joy.
