Tuesday, 26 March 2024

Arthur C. Brooks - "Overwhelmed? Just Say 'No.'"

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/saying-no-science-happiness/677579/



My problem is twofold. The first is not valuing the future properly compared with the present. Economists and psychologists have long studied the phenomenon of discounting, according to which we value something right now more highly than we value the idea of having the same item in, say, a year's time.