Michael Norton

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351 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 8 Aug

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Something You Should Know · The Science of Happier Spending & How to Set Healthy Boundaries - SYSK Choice · 8 Aug 2026 podcast

That's going to be the rest of your life every day forever.

So it's not that the house isn't great, right?

Or that the shoes aren't great or that the car isn't great.

It's that when you think of the totality of your life, those decisions to get the better thing often have impacts on other aspects of our lives.

Now we get home angry and we've missed time with our kids.

That's not necessarily the life that we'd want to choose just to have more square footage.

I think people who use, who feel that they need to have possessions, you know, in order to have people spend time with them,

It can happen for sure.

When people buy new fancy TVs, for example, they're often thinking, I'll have a Super Bowl party and we'll have family movie night and things like that.

When we look at the data, though, most of the time that you spend with your TV, for example, is by yourself.

And even when you're home, if you invite people over, for sure, that's really great.

But you also could do that when you had four roommates and lived in a tiny apartment.

Do you know what I mean?

So there are for sure advantages of having the extra space.

I wish I had a pool, for example, no doubt.

But are those things a reflection of your life?

Or are they really going to bring in new relationships that are really meaningful to you?

Or are people kind of just using you for the pool?

We've done research on lottery winners, for example, which...

is a good example of how money is quite complicated.

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