$ Blunts Ability to Savor and Achieve Happiness
Be sure to consider the new study, Money Giveth and Money Taketh Away: The Dual Effect of Wealth on Happiness. Key findings for cognitive designers include:
- A correlation between wealth (or just the thought of wealth) and the ability to savor experiences
- The ability to savor predicts your degree of happiness
So wealth blunts our ability to savor and therefore undercuts the mechanism that is the source of most of our happiness.
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