How To Hack Gratitude: Try A Hedonic Reset

A guide to using modern science and ancient Stoic wisdom to live a more joyful life

Julia Clavien
Better Humans
Published in
10 min readMay 21, 2018

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Back in 2015 I came across the concept of “Hedonic Adaptation” — our tendency to adapt to pleasures. I became fascinated with the idea. I started to think about how I might beat Hedonic Adaptation, and started thinking about an idea I termed “Hedonic…

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