- Everybody has a happiness tolerance — an upper limit — it is the capacity for which we allow ourselves to feel good.
- Some psychologists call it a “baseline” which is the amount of happiness we “naturally” feel and eventually revert back to, even if certain events or circumstances shift us temporarily.
- The reason why we don’t allow those shifts to become baselines is because of the upper limit.
- As soon as our circumstances extend beyond the amount of happiness we are accustomed to and comfortable feeling, we unconsciously begin to self-sabotage.