Tag: Happiness

Happiness, Learnings

Choose carefully what is worth stressing for.

Chris Labs

One of the worst thing in life is stress. It kills you much more than junk food or lack of exercising. Let’s say you buy an expensive car (90k) while you make 200k per year. Because you salary is high but not crazy high in relation to your car’s value, you will stress when you hit a puddle. Your heart will stop if you drive fast over a bump. You will get mad and stressed if someone hit your car. Don’t make the double mistake of buying an expensive car and stress for it. Get a beater, whether that’s an … Continue reading Choose carefully what is worth stressing for.

Happiness

Satisficer vs Maximizer, a key to happiness

Chris Labs

The goal of maximizing is a great source of dissatisfaction. Because it is a daunting task to look for the best. And even once you made a decision, you are still questioning your decision, maybe there was a better option somewhere. The opposite is satisficing. Where you will settle for something that is good enough and not worry about the possibility that there might something better elsewhere. In our world with an increasing number of choices, the need to gather information is rapidly overwhelming. According to Nobel Prize-winning economist Herbert Simon, when all the costs (time, money and anguish) are … Continue reading Satisficer vs Maximizer, a key to happiness