This book was perfect for me. It was just what I needed to hear. I always look forward to the next milestone in life and tell myself that I'll be happy when I get there, however the milestone comes and goes I'm never satisfied. I learned that we need to appreciate our spouses, our jobs etc more, ...
In a nutshell: hedonic adaptation is about how we adapt to all the good things in our life, how they make us happy at the beginning and how they inevitably cease to make us happy. How we still continue to take them for granted. The myths like "I'll be happy when_____ (fill in the blank)", or even...