Elizabeth Dunn And Norton How To Buy Happiness Summary

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In the essay “How to buy Happiness” by Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton it's explaining to us how buying little things rather than expensive things can bring much more happiness.Dunn and Norton said just picture if you found $1 million. They knew several of the people Will expose their selfish sides. Researchers found out that buying a house was one of the materials that people will buy with that money. But to break through plenty of house owners it's like living in their home. Having the fact to work every day and missing out on life experience just to pay a house. You don't have to be a millionaire to be happy. Expensive things can bring you happiness for a second but there are certain things that bring you much more happiness than anything.Dunn and Norton did you explain on who is the happiest. Is it the one going alone to Starbucks or the one buying a Starbucks to someone else? The one that was the happiest was the one that bought the Starbucks and actually hang down with that person afterwards. Change in how you spend …show more content…

That spending your money on others than yourself can bring much more happiness. It was a cold night when I was getting my check ready to go home. As I'm waiting there I'm thinking what I'm do with this paycheck. I remember that I wanted to buy some pair of high heels. I wanted these high heels for my graduation night in a couple weeks from now. Receiving my check noting to myself I would only stay with fifty bucks if I purchase them. I broke my head trying to figure out if I should purchase them. The next day my brother told me if I could go to see him perform that night. Later that day I went and I said to myself he did a good job I think he deserves a treat. On our way home over there I was hunting myself that if I spent I wouldn't have enough money for my high heels. I told myself five dollars won't hurt.As we get to Shakey's there was an old dirty man asking for change. To my luck I didn't have any

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