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…expected value is not just about money. It can be measured in health, well-being, happiness, time, self-fulfillment, satisfaction in relationships, or anything else that affects you.
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Escalation of commitment is costly. If the participants had walked away sooner, they would have made more. It may feel like quitting slows us down, but… it is persistence that is often the culprit.
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…there is nothing as engaging as this state of working at the very limits of your ability – or what both game designers and psychologists call ‘flow.’
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Busywork generally gets a bad rap in our real lives, but when we choose it for ourselves, it actually helps us feel quite contented and productive.
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As long as we feel capable of meeting the challenge, we report being highly motivated, extremely interested, and positively engaged by stressful situations.
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A major flow experience can improve our mood for hours, or even days… But because it’s such a state of extreme engagement, it eventually uses up our physical and mental resources.
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…when we set out to make our own happiness, we’re focused on activity that generates intrinsic rewards – the positive emotions, personal strengths, and social connections that we build…
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We do autotelic work because it engages us completely, and because intense engagement is the most pleasurable, satisfying, and meaningful emotional state we can experience.
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If we let our desire for more and more extrinsic rewards monopolize our time and attention, it prevent sus from engaging in autotelic activities that would actually increase our happiness.
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…the right kind of failure feedback is a reward. It makes us more engaged and more optimistic about our odds of success.
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