Alison Gopnik Quotes
Samuel Johnson Called It The Vanity Of Human Wishes, And Buddhists Talk About The Endless Cycle Of Desire. Social Psychologists Say We Get Trapped On A Hedonic Treadmill. What They All Mean Is That We Wish, Plan And Work For Things That We Think Will Make Us Happy, But When We Finally Get Them, We Aren't Nearly As Happy As We Thought We'd Be.
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