dissatisfaction

Is Never Being Satisfied a Good Thing? The Honest Answer

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Is Never Being Satisfied A Good Thing

People ask me whether never being satisfied is a good thing, and the honest answer is that it depends entirely on what the dissatisfaction is pointed at. Some of it moves you toward something specific and stops once you get there. The other kind never stops, because the finish line keeps walking away from you

Why Am I Never Satisfied? The Psychology Behind the Feeling That’s Never Enough

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Why Am I Never Satisfied

The feeling of never being satisfied tends to arrive quietly, in the gap between what you expected something to give you and what it actually did. It has a mechanism behind it, one that has nothing to do with gratitude or ambition or character. That mechanism is called hedonic adaptation, and understanding it will not