But Because Human Being Tend To Focus

It Is True That From A Behavioral Economics Perspective We Are Fallible, Easily Confused, Not That Smart, And Often Irrational. We Are More Like Homer Simpson Than Superman. So From This Perspective It Is Rather Depressing. But At The Same Time There Is Also A Silver Lining. There Are Free Lunches!

Kids Don't Care What Party They Have, Right? They Want Cake And They Want To Run Around. Nothing Else Matters. But In This Escalation, All The Kids Want Parties Like Their Friends. So, If All The Friends Have An Amazing, Expensive Party, They All Want The Same Thing. If We All Got To Scale Down As A Coordinated Effort, All The Kids Would Have Been Just As Happy.

Money Is A Great Way To Get Happiness. Right? Lots Of Wonderful Things You Can Do With Money. The Question Is, Are We Really Optimizing On That? So, If You Think About Getting Lattes And Getting Cable. Which One Of Those Is Actually Giving You A Greater Happiness, And If You Have To Cut On One Of Those, Which One Would You Cut? So, I Think Thinking In Terms Of Concrete Terms Would Help Us A Great Deal.

With Everything You Do, In Fact, You Should Train Yourself To Question Your Repeated Behaviors.

The Bad News Is That Ignoring The Performance Of People Is Almost As Bad As Shredding Their Effort In Front Of Their Eyes. Ignoring Gets You A Whole Way Out There. The Good News Is That By Simply Looking At Something That Somebody Has Done, Scanning It And Saying "uh Huh," That Seems To Be Quite Sufficient To Dramatically Improve People's Motivations.