The everyday is the wall-to-wall humdrum we seek to upgrade, like a fifties carpet we long to replace. More money. A bigger house. A better body. An upgraded career. The ultimate relationship. A highly inconvenient psychological phenomenon called 'the hedonic treadmill' has us eternally questing for more. Catherine Gray was a grandmaster in the art of eye-rolling the ordinary, and at the art of everlasting reaching. Until the daemon of depression made her re-think everything. Knitting together personal story telling and illuminating science, this book probes great minds in neuroscience and psychology. It explodes 'extraordinary-seeking' myths such as big bucks means big happiness, expensive weddings predict marital bliss, high intensity exercise is the best kind, and the workaday is less important than the showreel. This soulful, hilarious and life-affirming book is a manifesto on how to outwit the hedonic treadmill and retrain our negatively-biases brains. But most of all, it's a love letter to an average life beautifully live. Because maybe, just maybe, an ordinary life is the most satisfying one of all.