Do You Take Off for a Day? Or a Week?

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The make it adre principle very, very simply is, stop that youno. Just take a week off from piza, and when you come back that pitza experience will be extraordinarily better. We don't know exactly for which experience the optimal break is. But we do know that on average, if you take any kind of a break, even in t v,. if you take a commercial break, just he commercial break, you like the show more than if you just kept watching the show. The entire time, and you got a little bit sick of it. So even little brakes can do a little bit of that feeling of, i'm not so sick of it

Can money really buy happiness? Michael Norton is a social science researcher who studies how we feel about our spending decisions. His work explores questions like: What’s the best way to spend your cash? How much should you donate to charity? Do credit cards make us unhappy? In this episode, Michael shares the sometimes-surprising findings that can help you use our money to improve your life. Michael is a professor of business administration in the marketing unit at the Harvard Business School. Prior to joining HBS, Michael was a Fellow at the MIT Media Lab and MIT’s Sloan School of Management. His work has been published in a number of leading academic journals and has been covered in media outlets such as the Economist, the Financial Times, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. To learn more about "How to Be a Better Human," host Chris Duffy, or find footnotes and additional resources, please visit: go.ted.com/betterhuman