Michael Norton
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351 appearances
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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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What TV should I buy?
Instead of thinking I have money, how should I allocate it across everything in my life to make sure that overall I'm allocating it in a way that will make me happy?
Exactly.
And those payments are coming at the expense again of something else you could do.
Really pain, not our research, but there's really painful research for people who love cars.
How nice your car is really doesn't have much to do with the quality of your life.
And the reason is, and it's related to our earlier conversation, when we're buying an awesome car.
we have in our mind, in fact, marketers even do this to us in the commercials.
They show the cars zipping through the mountains at very high speeds in an awesome way.
And so when we buy an awesome car, we're thinking, oh my God, I'm gonna be flying through the mountains in this awesome way.
It turns out for most people when they buy a car, what they use it for is commuting.
So it is true that it's better to be in a really nice car than an economy car when you're in traffic.
It still is true.
But the difference is much, much smaller because really what it's about is honking at other people and being really mad at the world.
So we think that the fancy car is going to pay off in this amazing experience.
But when we think about how it actually plays out in our lives, it isn't as different as we might have thought from the cheaper option.
And therefore, when we go with the cheaper option, we've saved a huge chunk of money that we could use to take our family on vacation or to do something amazing or invest in a hobby that we love.
But we have a hard time bumping out of the which car should I get?
The nicer one is better instead of this sum of money that I have.
What would be the best way to use it?
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