kilobug comments on How To Have Things Correctly - Less Wrong

57 Post author: Alicorn 17 October 2012 06:10AM

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Comment author: kilobug 16 October 2012 09:02:19AM 2 points [-]

I would add a skill, that works quite well at least for me : buy things that emotionally connect with happy moments of your life. It could take many shapes - souvenirs from holidays, D&D manuals that reminds you the fun you had playing the game, an object that reminds you of someone or the great moment you had with someone (like my chess set, I used to play chess with my grandfather, I didn't play it much in the 15 years since he died, but every time I look at my chess set, I remember the games with him). The same goes with presents - many presents I got I never use, but when I see them, I think about the person who gave them to me, and the circumstance (ie, my 18th birthday or my graduation or whatever) for which I got them, and it gives me some "warm fuzzies".