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The pleasure of getting what you want is often fleeting. You dream about gettintly: Things won are done; joys soul lies in the
You heard the man: Happiness lies in the journey, not the destination. That is why, according to Haidt, people who have won the lottery and people who have recently been paralyzed and placed in a wheelchair return to their original (pre-incident) levels of happiness within a Money can buy happiness, but usually only temporarily. Pleasure comes in rising to wealth, not in idly retaining it eventually the shiny gadgets and new cars lose their luster. The pleasure fades.
Luckily, there are steps we can take to more permanently increase our happiness:
1. Reduce noise. Research shows that people who must adapt to new and chronic sources of noise (such as when a new highway is built) never fully adapt, and even studies that find some adaptation still find evidence of impairment on cognitive tasks.
2. Improve your commute. Even after years of commuting, those whose commutes are traffic-filled still arrive at work with higher levels of stress hormones.
3. Take control. In another famous study, Ellen Langer and Judith Rodin gave benefits