research Archives - CLIPPING CHAINS https://clippingchains.com/tag/research/ Funding the Adventurous Life Sun, 07 May 2023 17:45:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://i0.wp.com/clippingchains.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/cropped-TEST_CC_Logo-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 research Archives - CLIPPING CHAINS https://clippingchains.com/tag/research/ 32 32 150809980 The Blue Dot Effect: Pessimism in a Beautiful World https://clippingchains.com/2023/05/08/blue-dot-effect/ https://clippingchains.com/2023/05/08/blue-dot-effect/#comments Mon, 08 May 2023 06:00:00 +0000 https://clippingchains.com/?p=9441 As I’ve recently mused, financial independence won’t solve life’s problems. We will never “arrive.” We will never achieve perfection. An impactful 2018 study, nicknamed the Blue Dot Effect (a stand-in for the more lumbering “prevalence-induced concept change” title), helps us to understand the mind’s tendency toward finding problems, even where none exist. The results have …

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]]> https://clippingchains.com/2023/05/08/blue-dot-effect/feed/ 2 9441 The New Research on Income and Happiness https://clippingchains.com/2021/06/21/the-new-research-on-income-and-happiness/ https://clippingchains.com/2021/06/21/the-new-research-on-income-and-happiness/#comments Mon, 21 Jun 2021 13:31:00 +0000 https://clippingchains.com/?p=7308 We’ve all heard the phrase “money doesn’t buy happiness.” However, new research suggests a strong correlation between income and well-being, with no apparent ceiling. How can we interpret these results and reconcile what we’ve always been told about money and happiness? A Point of Diminishing Returns on Happiness and Income? A number of studies suggest …

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