Michael Norton
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first heard Dec 2019
last heard Dec 2019
Michael Norton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And it's not that they love, love the behavior of regifting, but they actually tend to say, look, I gave them a gift.
And if it's not perfect for them, it's okay if they find somebody else who might like it more.
It really seems to be.
We're often simulating in our minds what someone will think or how someone will feel about our actions.
And sometimes we're completely accurate, but very often we're overstating people's emotional reactions.
And this is one case where we really seem to be overestimating just how angry someone will be if we take something they give us and pass it along to somebody else.
We were wondering, so there seems to be this barrier to people regifting where they think it's a really negative thing to do.
And we wondered if we could help them kind of get over the stigma and actually go ahead and regift.
Because, by the way, regifting can be fantastic.
It means that a gift that someone doesn't want ends up with someone who wants it.
So from a societal perspective, it's fantastic if people regift things they don't like.
But they don't seem to be willing to do it unless we tell them about – and this is actually a real day, by the way, National Regifting Day, where it's officially culturally sanctioned that we go ahead on this one day and pass along our unwanted presents to somebody else.
And when we tell people about that day, they get way more comfortable with actually going ahead and regifting.
That's exactly right.
I think there's a governor somewhere who officially declared National Regifting Day.
I believe it's the Thursday before Christmas, something around then, where there's a time of gift giving.
And we need that excuse when we get these terrible gifts to get them out of our house and give them to someone who might like them.
Hopefully you can actually really optimize it right where you can either give someone a gift that you don't want that they want or give them a gift that they can go ahead and give to somebody else themselves.
So you keep going down the chain of regifting until finally someone ends up with the ridiculous potholder that they actually want.
And then everybody along the chain wins because everyone got to give a gift and the person who ended up with it really likes it.
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