This is a distinction between pleasure and happiness.
I wrote about distinction between pleasure and happiness later in the article.
My model is this: there are different experiences. Each one give some amount of long-term happiness and pleasure. But there’s no big correlation between these 2 things.
Although in short term, pleasure does bring happiness, so if you do something pleasant, you would be happy while you do it and unhappy when you not.
But there are many nuances here that I did not mention. For example, if you have strict schedule like home/work, your brain will create a default level of pleasure for each activity. This way, you would not suffer during all work hours and won’t feel overwhelming pleasure all the time at home.
I sometimes argue that even the common drive to variety is distinct from hedonic adaptation
I think drive to variety is all about happiness, not pleasure.
Do you disagree with my model, or do you think I should add those remarks to the post ?
Do you disagree with my model, or do you think I should add those remarks to the post ?
I fully agree with the distinction between pleasure and happiness, though I suspect the relationship between them is more complicated than long vs short terms. You should probably retitle the post and remove hedonic adaptation as your primary cause for the distinction. Either explore other causes, or just describe the weakness of the correlation without naming the reason.
I wrote about distinction between pleasure and happiness later in the article.
My model is this: there are different experiences. Each one give some amount of long-term happiness and pleasure. But there’s no big correlation between these 2 things.
Although in short term, pleasure does bring happiness, so if you do something pleasant, you would be happy while you do it and unhappy when you not.
But there are many nuances here that I did not mention. For example, if you have strict schedule like home/work, your brain will create a default level of pleasure for each activity. This way, you would not suffer during all work hours and won’t feel overwhelming pleasure all the time at home.
I think drive to variety is all about happiness, not pleasure.
Do you disagree with my model, or do you think I should add those remarks to the post ?
I fully agree with the distinction between pleasure and happiness, though I suspect the relationship between them is more complicated than long vs short terms. You should probably retitle the post and remove hedonic adaptation as your primary cause for the distinction. Either explore other causes, or just describe the weakness of the correlation without naming the reason.
Can you explain with few exemples what do you mean by “more complicated”?