Clearly I cannot afford this but I still want to test the longevity/sustainability of this decision - that USD 500 is enough.
Can you convince yourself that you receive 500 dollars worth of health, motivation and resilience benefits to withstand 180 seconds of 12-15 centigrade water every. Single. Day. for a week? My assumption is that you’ll decide it isn’t worth it, even for USD 500. My motivation for cold showers (6 months of pure agony, I’ll add) is twofold and deeply personal -watching my father die -cancer- and be miserable about being cold, and my own mental health benefits enormously from it (it is the hardest thing I can do in a day, everything else is a piece of cake). But no amount of money would incentivise me to do this. Huda Masood +91 9886796967 On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 at 02:37, Charles Haynes <charles.hay...@gmail.com> wrote: > I would do the shower thing for somewhere between USD$100 and USD$500 per > day. ($100 is probably not enough, $500 definitely is.) > > One learning about money is that looking at investments daily makes me > unhappy and that for me the "asymmetry of happiness" is real - that losing > $100 makes me more unhappy than winning $100 would (and it's not just about > the non-linearity of the value of money, but it may be an endowment > effect). So in circumstances where good and bad things are both likely to > happen relatively frequently I try to "smooth out" the frequency by > checking less often. > > On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 at 07:52, Huda Masood via Silklist < > silklist@lists.digeratus.in> wrote: > >> Tell me then, in what other areas of your life have you applied the new >> learnings with money? >> >> I find the human relationship with money extraordinarily interesting. My >> current social experiment is asking how much could I pay them to take a 3 >> minute cold shower every day, for a whole year. No hot water before or >> after. >> >> I’ve had no takers so far. Everyone wriggles out with some condition or >> the other. No amount of money is incentive enough. >> >> But they’d happily do it if family was in danger or they could work half >> time for the same pay. >> >> I find that very telling. >> >> Huda Masood >> +91 9886796967 >> >> >> On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 at 18:27, Christopher A Kantarjiev via Silklist < >> silklist@lists.digeratus.in> wrote: >> >>> On 1/24/24 10:16 PM, Udhay Shankar N via Silklist wrote: >>> >>> > Very interesting thought. The most thought-provoking part is "changing >>> > your mental model" which resonated with me, because the mental model >>> > which causes this to be an issue in the first place is "Am I being >>> taken >>> > advantage of?" (which is completely different from "Can I afford >>> this?" >>> > which requires a separate thread, I think.) >>> >>> Yes ... I grew up in a household where my father tracked every penny of >>> expenses and basically invented a double-entry bookkeeping system so he >>> could resolve his cash accounts Sunday night. I guess it was "fun" for >>> him, but hell for everyone else when he wandered the house saying "where >>> did I spent twelve cents?". >>> >>> It came both from a history of not having enough (he lived through WWII >>> in Germany) and a fear of being taken advantage of ... which I, somewhat >>> unfortunately, inherited. >>> >>> Those two things were very intertwined in my attitude towards money, and >>> this experience was a big step in learning to let go of them. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Silklist mailing list >>> Silklist@lists.digeratus.in >>> https://mailman.panix.com/listinfo.cgi/silklist >>> >> -- >> Silklist mailing list >> Silklist@lists.digeratus.in >> https://mailman.panix.com/listinfo.cgi/silklist >> >
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