You know how great it feels to find a new favorite restaurant? Suddenly, you're finding any excuse to go to that cool spot with the sushi burritos. Friends coming into town? Sushi burritos. Need a snack on the way to a meeting? Sushi burritos, obviously. Woke up in the middle of the night with a singular hunger? 24-hour sushi burritos, baby. But eventually, all that seaweed, rice, and ginger starts to get to you. You can't imagine going back. Well, not all is lost. Next time you order a California-roll burrito, instead of grabbing it in two hands and going to town, try unwrapping it and eating it with utensils instead. You may gain a new appreciation for an old fave. That feeling of diminishing returns as you continue to experience something that at one time gave you pleasure is called "hedonic adaptation," and it's a well-documented example of how the human brain just isn't wired to be happy all the time. In one of the best-known studies of the effect, rese