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My Solution For Feeling Like I’ve Done Enough
Is ridiculously simple
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What I’m learning about 🧠
The beta-region paradox.
Most people will choose to walk to a restaurant if it’s under one mile away and drive if it’s two miles. From an efficiency standpoint, this is illogical since driving the further distance will be much faster than walking.
In a different context, this explains the phenomenon that people can sometimes recover more quickly from more intense emotions or pain than from less distressing experiences.
“A trick knee hurts longer than a shattered patella because the latter injury exceeds the critical threshold for pain and thereby triggers the very processes that attenuate it.” — Daniel Gilbert
You’re probably wondering why the heck I care about this.
It’s because it can be mapped onto our human tendency to put up with suffering when a situation is “not that bad.” The beta-region paradox shows that many people would be better off if their situations…
