Focus on what makes you happy, and do what gives meaning to your life. If you seek and accept only the best, you are a Maximizer, they need to be assured that every purchase or decision was the best that could be made. Satisficers, on the other hand, will choose something that is good enough and not worry about the possibility that there might be something better. Something as trivial as a little gift of candy to medical residents improves the speed and accuracy of their diagnoses. In general, positive emotion enables us to broaden our understanding of what confronts us. We are surrounded by modern, time-saving devices, but we … Continue reading Barry Schwartz