Would it change the way you spend your time, live your life, and even who you hang out with?
It seems that most of us work so we can entertain ourselves, whether it’s to pay for TV, dinner, drinks or things even more lavish like traveling.
So my question is, if you call it work, then are you investing in yourself or just in entertaining yourself in the future?
A recent academic study showed that humans favor immediate pleasure to pleasure in the future, even if it’s much greater:
“Pleasure now is worth more to us than pleasure later,” says economist William Dickens of Northeastern University. “We much prefer current consumption to future consumption. It may even be wired into us.”
Sure, that seems like common sense, but consider the implications. It means you’d rather play video games than study, send a quick email to get someone else to do something instead of doing it yourself, and generally go for the cookies instead of the vegetables.
What if work WAS your playtime, where every moment you spent was an investment in your future, thereby giving you both immediate and long-term pleasure?
