- Despite obtaining wealth, assets, emotional well-being, happiness remains leveled

- Objective outcomes and happiness are not correlated

- Initial spike in happiness or sadness lasts for a very short period of time and soon, person is habituated back into their usual feeling

- If more positive events are happening in a person's life in a short span of time, the person could be lead into thinking that their general overall happiness has increased

- Research findings have shown that this could be traced back to large spending habits

- Some scientists believe that you cannot escape Hedonism

- Origins goes back to ancient Greece times where Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates believed that giving kindness to others helped relieve hedonism

- Hedonism Link to revised article