Episode 669: The Return on Ordinary Days
Almost no one talks about the Tuesday.
The ordinary, unmemorable, nothing-particularly-special Tuesday that is, in fact, the primary unit of a life.
In this episode I make the case for investing in ordinary days with the same intentionality we bring to peak experiences. Drawing on Daniel Kahneman's peak-end rule, which describes how our memory weights peak moments and endings far more than the long middle, I explore how we can be heavily distorted toward the dramatic while the actual daily texture of our lives goes largely unexamined.
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