Self-Value Shields Against Critics

Critics are criticized for being offenders of a few specific types:

• Overintellectual nitpickers.
• Soft touches who are paid by studios and record labels.
• Chummy logrollers. In the social media age, you'll be surround...

The more enjoyable a task, the less we procrastinate on it. 

Boring tasks are more likely to lead to procrastination than difficult ones, that's why we keep postponing all the busywork (work that keeps us busy but has little value in itself.)

Critics view the hedonic adaptation tendency as a generalization that fails to take potentially shifting factors into account.

• Significant life events such as loss of employment or the end of a major relationship can change one's original level of contentment.
• Negative events a...