31 agosto 2009
mala película
Otro día les cuento sobre mi experiencia con las infidelidades.
29 agosto 2009
desde The Boston Globe
A few researchers are looking again at whether happiness can be bought, and they are discovering that quite possibly it can - it's just that some strategies are a lot better than others. Taking a friend to lunch, it turns out, makes us happier than buying a new outfit. Splurging on a vacation makes us happy in a way that splurging on a car may not.
"Just because money doesn't buy happiness doesn't mean money cannot buy happiness," says Elizabeth Dunn, a social psychologist and assistant professor at the University of British Columbia. "People just might be using it wrong."
Dunn and others are beginning to offer an intriguing explanation for the poor wealth-to-happiness exchange rate: The problem isn't money, it's us. For deep-seated psychological reasons, when it comes to spending money, we tend to value goods over experiences, ourselves over others, things over people. When it comes to happiness, none of these decisions are right: The spending that make us happy, it turns out, is often spending where the money vanishes and leaves something ineffable in its place.
Any attempt to put these findings into practice, however, has to contend with the subtle but powerful ways money itself channels our thinking, and the ways it plays on human attitudes about sharing and scarcity. Recent studies have suggested that merely thinking about money makes us more solitary and selfish, and steers us away from the spending that promises to make us happiest.
"We generally found very consistent evidence that experiences made people happier than material possessions they had invested in," says Van Boven.
Why? For one thing, Van Boven and Gilovich argue, experiences are inherently more social - when we vacation or eat out or go to the movies it's usually with other people, and we're liable also to relive the experience when we see those people again. And past experiences can work as a sort of social adhesive even with people who didn't participate with us, providing stories and conversational fodder in a way that a new watch or speedboat rarely can.
In addition, other work by Van Boven suggests that experiences don't usually trigger the same sort of pernicious comparisons that material possessions do. We like our car less whenever we catch a glimpse of our neighbor's newer, nicer car, but we don't like our honeymoon any less because our neighbor went on a fancier one.
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karma
26 agosto 2009
gustos penosos
ay nanita!
23 agosto 2009
22 agosto 2009
ugh
pi
20 agosto 2009
Ilusiones ópticas
Algunos aquí:
- El cerebro que ordena las imágenes.
- La luz que se acerca y se aleja
- La bolita que parece que baja verticalmente pero lo hace con un ángulo.

Estoy contenta porque hoy por la noche... ¡improluchas!
Mañana les cuento.
18 agosto 2009
Sorpresitas
Puede sonar contradictorio, pero mientras más productivo ha sido mi día laboral, más distracciones me permito. Hoy he modelado como Heidi Klum en esteroides por lo que me he dado unos descansos para hacer varios tests que me enviaron.Cammy is a Rational Fieldmarshal (ENTJ). In high school, she had lots of friends but few dates. In college, she found it easier to find dates. Her friends told her she was bossy and intimidating. It frustrated her that what worked well in her career wasn't good in romance. Then she met a man who actively pursued her. At first she wasn't interested because she thought he was a light weight. As she got to know him, she valued his ability to understand her thinking and bring out her sentimental side.
16 agosto 2009
Teatro
Body pump
Hay una clase los martes a las 7am en el gimnasio que me gusta, mucho. Se llama Body Pump y es una combinación de pesas con música. Difícil de explicar hasta que no ves, o entras a, una. Tú eliges cuanto peso poner en la barra para cada grupo de músculos lo que hace que, siempre que quieras, sea un reto y que veas cambios rápidamente. Debo admitir que (de una forma muy culpable), me gusta ver al entrenador que es una versión mejorada de P3 y tiene un tatuaje de un jedi en la pantorilla (otro día ahondaré en los guilty pleasures).lecturas
12 agosto 2009
Página del día
www.bookslut.com
Como ejemplo chequen esta:
Mystery Strumpet’s Peachy-Keen Guide To Beach Books
11 agosto 2009
06 agosto 2009
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