““Why do we envy people with more money? Why do we assume that we’d be happier in their shoes? It’s the dopamine system tricking us—it’s got nothing to do with happiness at all, though we feel like it does. There may actually be a circuit in the brain that makes us forget about the effects of adaptation; certainly we seem to be suckers for the myth of success. But there are other ways our brains fool us about happiness.””
