People are strange.
And not just when you’re a stranger, Jim.
People are strange.
people seem to get more happiness from experiences than things is that they anticipate and remember the former more often than the latter . ... Things bring us happiness when we use them, but not so much when we merely think about them. Experiences bring happiness in both cases .... We are more likely to mentally revisit our experiences than our... See more
Nagesh Belludi • You Are Rich if You Think You Have Enough
Experiences beat things every time (point 2)
What we’re not noticing enough is the fact that algorithms have flattened our cultural landscape and induced a sense of passivity and numbness, challenging our capacity to engage deeply or be genuinely curious.
Just a moment...
THE ethical experiment.
The mistake we made was turning phones into toys for having fun, rather than honing them as tools for getting stuff done.
Steve Jobs energy transference was so strong it was labelled a Reality Distortion Field. He could bend other people's perception of reality with one interaction. I don't think this is some mystical woo-woo energy. It's a combination of intensity, frame, belief, body language, optimism and vocal tonality.
