Michael Norton
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351 appearances
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 8 Aug
Michael Norton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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As people get older, they tend to buy larger living spaces.
The size of your house, lots of research shows, is completely uncorrelated with how happy you are with your life.
It feels like a nicer house would be better for you, but when you look at the data, it doesn't seem to do much for us.
It's funny.
There's so much thought that people put into how much to save and when to save and do they have enough saved.
But then they have an amount of money that they decided they don't need to save, that they can spend.
But we often put absolutely no thought at all into how we're going to spend money.
So we spend it on things that are immediate.
We spend it on things that we think we want that will make us happy.
And in our research, we really try to get people to think more carefully about anything you are buying.
Is that thing you are buying actually going to do anything for your happiness?
And if not, maybe you could think about doing something else with that money.
Absolutely.
So we sometimes have people do a credit card audit where we have them go through their credit card statement for last month and start categorizing things.
You know, what did I spend it on?
What are the buckets of my spending?
And then we also get them to think about, did that make them happy last month as well?
So it's kind of a spending audit, but also a happiness audit.
And for sure, of course, most of the money we spend is stuff we have to buy.
We need rent.
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