http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1057740814000631 http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/08/actually-some-material-goods-can-make-you-happy/375280/
Quoted from a friend who collects and catalogs Paul H. Young bamboo fly rods, but it must apply to bicycles and kayaks, too... It's often said, "Spend your money on experiences, not objects." > Experiences continually enrich our lives, while an overabundance of > material things weighs us down with cares, and cannot give us the > satisfaction we seek. Now a pair of psychologists, Darwin A. Guevarra and > Ryan T. Howell, argue that the "experience recommendation" is overly > dependent upon a strictly dichotomous comparison of material items and life > experiences. When consumption motives are examined in a broader context > that includes "experiential products," - purchases that fall between > material items and life experiences - the acquisition of experiential > products provides similar levels of well-being to life experiences, and > more well-being than material items. > The researchers explain that material items are purchased "in order to > have" while experiential purchases are made "in order to do." Experiential > purchases - like a certain Paul H. Young Para 15 Keller DeLuxe I could > mention - are useful in helping to satisfy the psychological needs of > competence (mastering fly casting), autonomy (getting out on the stream, > identifying some mayfly species, tying on the right dry fly and catching > the trout), and relatedness (going fishing with a buddy, or discussing the > experience later at a club meeting or even on this Forum). And let's face > it - if you don't have competence, autonomy, and relatedness, what do you > have? And don't forget you're going to need a nice reel to go with that rod > too. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
