Status:: #🌱 Tags:: Links:: [[Hedonic treadmill]] ___ # Desire is a much stronger motivator than possession Having something will only provide a brief moment of satisfaction before desire motivates you to pursue something else. We have evolved to be more motivated by desire than possession because it's our ancestors that desired more than possessed that were more likely to survive. If we were satisfied with possessing we would sit in our caves eating until we became hungry again rather than hunt for excess food to prepare for the winter. [[Why is overindulgence such a problem in industrialized nations]].