I think this is a great concept generally. However, I can’t think of many situations where I’d personally be able to come up with a “cheerful price” where I’d be happy to do something that I wouldn’t do for free.
For example, if a friend asks me to bake a cake or drive them to the airport, I wouldn’t be more cheerful doing that for, say, $1000 than for free. I’d probably be less cheerful since I know that’s a ridiculous price, even if they wanted to pay it. Maybe that’s just because I have enough money that a one-off extra $1000 wouldn’t have a meaningful impact on how I live my life or maybe it’s just that there isn’t a strong connection between dollars and my mental state.
I can imagine situations where I would have a “cheerful price” but these mostly involve doing something for a stranger that doesn’t take much time or effort. For anything that requires significant time or effort, I’d have to activate my executive functioning to try to balance things rationally. Ultimately, I think money is too abstract to be a good motivator for me. My monkey brain needs some help to translate it into something more tangible than something that merely has the potential to be exchanged for goods and services at some later point.
I think this is a great concept generally. However, I can’t think of many situations where I’d personally be able to come up with a “cheerful price” where I’d be happy to do something that I wouldn’t do for free.
For example, if a friend asks me to bake a cake or drive them to the airport, I wouldn’t be more cheerful doing that for, say, $1000 than for free. I’d probably be less cheerful since I know that’s a ridiculous price, even if they wanted to pay it. Maybe that’s just because I have enough money that a one-off extra $1000 wouldn’t have a meaningful impact on how I live my life or maybe it’s just that there isn’t a strong connection between dollars and my mental state.
I can imagine situations where I would have a “cheerful price” but these mostly involve doing something for a stranger that doesn’t take much time or effort. For anything that requires significant time or effort, I’d have to activate my executive functioning to try to balance things rationally. Ultimately, I think money is too abstract to be a good motivator for me. My monkey brain needs some help to translate it into something more tangible than something that merely has the potential to be exchanged for goods and services at some later point.