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Why We Get Used to Thing(but Not All Things,and Always)

Man is a pliant animal, a being who gets accusmed to anytings

----Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The late nineteenth century was a rough time for frogs, worms, and a number of other creatures.As the study of physiology blossomed in Europe and America (thanks in part to Charles Darwin) , scientist went wild dividing, dismembering, and relocating these unfortunate subject. According to scientific legend,they also slowely heated some of the animals in order to test the extent to which they could adapt to changes in their environments.

The most famous example of this kind of research is the apocryphal story of the frog in boiling water.Supposedly,if you place a frog in a pot of very hot water, it will scramble around and quickly leap out. However.if you put one in a pot of room-temperature water,the little guy will stay there contentedly.Now,if you slowely increase the temperature,the frog will stay put as it acclimates to the rising change in temperature.And if you continue to run up the heat, the frog will eventually boil to death.

This analogy to adaptation is so common, in fact,that James Fallows of The Atlantic argued, in a Web column called Boiled-frog Archives, that Frogs have a hard enough time as it is, what with diminishing swamplaned and polluted waters.

Political rhetoric has its problems too.For the frogs sake, and that of less-idiotic public disclosure, let`s retire the stupid canard,grenouille.

In fact, frogs are remarkably adaptive. They can live in water and on land, they change their colors to blend in with their environments, and some even mimic their toxic toxic cousins in an effort predators. Humans, too, have an amazing ability to adapt physically to thier environments, from the frigid,barren Arctic to scorhing ,arid desets.

Physical adaptation is a much-touted skill on mankind`s collective resume.

When we first move from darkness to light. we are unable to open our eye fully,but after a few minutes we get used to the new environment and can function in it perfectly. In fact, we acclimate so readily that after a while we barely notice the intensity of thelight around us.

Our ability to adapt to light is just one example of our general adaptive skills.The same process take place when we first encounter a new smell,texture,temperature,or back ground noise.Initially,we are very aware of these sensations. But as time passes,we adapt and they become almost un-noticeable.

It turns out that we are very good at conceiving the future but we can`t foresee how we will adapt to it.It`s difficult to imagine that, over time,you might get used to changes in your lifestyle, adapt to your injury,and find that it`s not as terrible as you once thought.It`s even harder to imagine discovering new and unexpected joys in your new situation.

Yet numerous studies have shown that we adapt more quickly and to a larger degree than we imagine.The question is: how dose adaptation work, and what degree dose it chang our contentedness, if at all?

1 What can pain teach you about Adaptation? 

2 What do you think of  hedonic Adaptation ? 

3. what is your own definition Adaptation. 

4. Do you have any Adaptation habit?