Michael Norton
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351 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
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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Maybe we have health problems later.
We're not often thinking about not just the feeling when we're buying and consuming, but what it means for our lives overall.
We get stuck in the moment in the, I want a new shiny thing.
And it's harder for us to bump out of it to say, wait, do shiny things actually make me happy?
Have they made me happy in the past?
Or should I be thinking differently about the problem?
Exactly.
And if you think, you know, if we were smart as humans, and I'm including myself here as not being smart, why haven't we learned by now?
You know, so we have a closet full of shoes that we never wear.
So we know, we can see it every day that each of those that we bought ended up not doing much for us.
but the next pair of shoes seems like it's going to be the amazing pair.
For some reason, we're very good at learning all kinds of things in the world.
For some reason, we're really not good at learning that something that might feel good in the moment doesn't necessarily mean it's going to have any lasting impact on us.
The goal is to think about every $5 you spend, is that the optimal way to spend that $5?
When you spend even $5, you are foregoing something else.
And maybe sometimes that something else would be better for you.
Maybe sometimes instead of buying a $5 thing, taking a friend to lunch would be a better use of that money.
But we don't often think of the money in those terms.
We get really focused on the category that we're in.
What should I have for lunch?
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