Most significant ideas: When you predict exactly the way you feel in the future about something than your most likely going to be wrong. Also affective forecasting, when you over estimate the intensity of future events.
Why are these important? Well because people need to focus more on the emotional part of how they will feel rather than the financial effects. Also thats what human action is directed toward and it affects our well- being.
Examples: When I go shopping to buy clothes, I think that I'll be more happy and feel better about myself, but once I where the shirt or pair of jeans a couple times, I adapt to them and the pleasure of wearing that new shirt or pair of jeans is gone because you get use to them.
I do the same exact thing! It's almost like a high when you buy new things. Especially when I get a new phone. I seriously get so happy and think it will make me feel so much better about my life, but I eventually go back to the way I was before I got the phone.
ReplyDeleteI'm the same way, except with like everything. I'll buy something new, be totally stoked about it for like, not that long, then its back to normal and on to the next thing.
ReplyDeleteWouldn't emotion be just as hard to predict as financial effects? How would a switch in focus actually impact our happiness?
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