I thought the meat of the post added a lot to the (already completely awesome!) summary.
Yes, and I don’t learn well from outline-summaries only. I imagine that I would not gain much if I had read only the summary up top. The just-acquired lessons would quickly dissipate without the examples and explanations to reinforce them.
Thanks- I’m just following whatever extracts I find particularly interesting back to the original papers. (I found the bit about spare time leading to happiness particularly interesting, which is how I found the Aaker reference.)
One more thing: In the sentence “Aside from making them happier, you will also improve your relationship with them via the Benjamin Franklin effect, which — unintuitively — makes people like you more if you ask them for favors.”, the link to the wikipedia article on the Ben Franklin Effect links to this:
Fixed and fixed! How do you have such sharp eyes.
Yes, and I don’t learn well from outline-summaries only. I imagine that I would not gain much if I had read only the summary up top. The just-acquired lessons would quickly dissipate without the examples and explanations to reinforce them.
Thanks- I’m just following whatever extracts I find particularly interesting back to the original papers. (I found the bit about spare time leading to happiness particularly interesting, which is how I found the Aaker reference.)
One more thing: In the sentence “Aside from making them happier, you will also improve your relationship with them via the Benjamin Franklin effect, which — unintuitively — makes people like you more if you ask them for favors.”, the link to the wikipedia article on the Ben Franklin Effect links to this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Effect
Instead of to the article here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Franklin_effect
Fixed.