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The hedonic treadmill and the solution to living a happy life.
Have resilient neurotransmitters and make slow hedonistic improvements to your life.
You're obviously not going to be happy if your life simply sucks. If you're a homeless truecel from birth to death then you can pretty much guarantee quite a bit of suffering.
However, you're not going to appreciate the quality of your life if you have been raised to be rich, good looking, respected, etc all throughout your life. You will get bored of it. This is known as the hedonic treadmill. Your dopamine receptors will be desensitized to these things as you begin to take them for granted.
So what's the way to have a happy life? Starting from a low point where you crave respect, affection, validation, good looks, wealth, etc, because you don't have these things. You should start without these things and slowly begin to acquire them throughout the years. This means that your dopamine receptors will constantly be experiencing something new and will not quickly succumb to the hedonic treadmill.
Take this guy for example - Dan Bilzerian.
He's a famous poker player, and lives an extremely hedonistic lifestyle. You may think Dan Bilzerian has an amazing lifestyle but he himself has said he is completely desensitized to everything in his lifestyle - abundant women, sex, expensive cars and mansions, etc. He's squeezed these things of all the happiness they can give him, and since he's basically at the top and can't go anywhere from here, he's doomed to be caught on the hedonic treadmill. His only hope is to intermittently do a dopamine fast by spending months in a forest or something, but for him, that would probably be the equivalent of a month long meth comedown due to the down-regulation he has caused his dopamine receptors.
This is another reason why I actually believe it's better to be a late bloomer. These things - affection and validation - that you were denied throughout your youth, are much more satisfying if experiencing it for the first time at 20, than it is for some gigachad from birth, who probably started kissing girls at 6 years old, and took these things for granted from the very beginning, not getting much of a rush out of them.
The tricky part is, of course, maintaining happiness whilst craving these things. That's where any criticism of this thread will most likely come from. You need strong mental resilience and good coping mechanisms. I was truecel tier all throughout primary school and high school but I wasn't depressed during this time because I was completely happy playing video games 8 hours a day. There was certainly a part of me that longed for these things that were missing in my life but I was fairly complacent because I was quite sure that I would have these things in the future. And you could blame the blackpill for your own misery, but I was already basically as blackpilled back then as I am now. It was always obvious to me that looks are extremely important, so I don't see how blackpill could have changed that.
This isn't a "how to be happy" thread, as I understand that some people will obsess over whatever they aren't able to get, and will always find misery in that, and that's understandable. This is merely a thread to show what I think is the ideal life cycle in order to maximise happiness, fulfilment and hedonistic utility.
Have resilient neurotransmitters and make slow hedonistic improvements to your life.
You're obviously not going to be happy if your life simply sucks. If you're a homeless truecel from birth to death then you can pretty much guarantee quite a bit of suffering.
However, you're not going to appreciate the quality of your life if you have been raised to be rich, good looking, respected, etc all throughout your life. You will get bored of it. This is known as the hedonic treadmill. Your dopamine receptors will be desensitized to these things as you begin to take them for granted.
So what's the way to have a happy life? Starting from a low point where you crave respect, affection, validation, good looks, wealth, etc, because you don't have these things. You should start without these things and slowly begin to acquire them throughout the years. This means that your dopamine receptors will constantly be experiencing something new and will not quickly succumb to the hedonic treadmill.
Take this guy for example - Dan Bilzerian.
He's a famous poker player, and lives an extremely hedonistic lifestyle. You may think Dan Bilzerian has an amazing lifestyle but he himself has said he is completely desensitized to everything in his lifestyle - abundant women, sex, expensive cars and mansions, etc. He's squeezed these things of all the happiness they can give him, and since he's basically at the top and can't go anywhere from here, he's doomed to be caught on the hedonic treadmill. His only hope is to intermittently do a dopamine fast by spending months in a forest or something, but for him, that would probably be the equivalent of a month long meth comedown due to the down-regulation he has caused his dopamine receptors.
This is another reason why I actually believe it's better to be a late bloomer. These things - affection and validation - that you were denied throughout your youth, are much more satisfying if experiencing it for the first time at 20, than it is for some gigachad from birth, who probably started kissing girls at 6 years old, and took these things for granted from the very beginning, not getting much of a rush out of them.
The tricky part is, of course, maintaining happiness whilst craving these things. That's where any criticism of this thread will most likely come from. You need strong mental resilience and good coping mechanisms. I was truecel tier all throughout primary school and high school but I wasn't depressed during this time because I was completely happy playing video games 8 hours a day. There was certainly a part of me that longed for these things that were missing in my life but I was fairly complacent because I was quite sure that I would have these things in the future. And you could blame the blackpill for your own misery, but I was already basically as blackpilled back then as I am now. It was always obvious to me that looks are extremely important, so I don't see how blackpill could have changed that.
This isn't a "how to be happy" thread, as I understand that some people will obsess over whatever they aren't able to get, and will always find misery in that, and that's understandable. This is merely a thread to show what I think is the ideal life cycle in order to maximise happiness, fulfilment and hedonistic utility.
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