Tag: happiness
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We don’t know what to buy to make us happy
We commonly come across advice to spend on the things that make us happy. Great advice. But it suffers from one fatal flaw. We aren’t very good at spending on the things that make us happy. This ability is called affective forecasting, or predicting what makes us happy in the future. A paper by Dunn,…
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Skipping drinks won’t make you rich
I’m not a fan of 3-dollar Cokes, as I’ve pointed out before. I used to be a fan of “skipping the latte”. I would wait for discounts before buying meals. I would skip drinks, always. If I didn’t need it, I wouldn’t buy it. It adds up, but not to much Let’s do some actual…