Convos (Blog)
Applied creativity and inventive thinking for regular people in everyday life.
The IKEA Effect
It is not uncommon to have an affection for the things we build. Juliet Funt, High Performance Expert, calls this tendency as “The IKEA Effect.” In short, we like what we built because we were involved in building it. And the opposite is true: We like what other people built less, because we did not play a role in building it. This bias clouds our thinking.
Things That Ding
“What are you putting aside to be present this morning?” the facilitator asked. One of the participants said she was silencing the “things that ding” – and that phrase stuck with me through the morning.