Often times we like to believe that it will make us happier to purchase possessions over experiences because those possessions will last longer. The truth is that we are tricking our selves into believing that the more we have the happier we are when the real happiness comes from the anticipation of a purchase. In the article “Buy Experiences, Not Things” James Hamblin uses repetition, relatable language, and emotional imagery to show the connection between anticipation and happiness when it comes to making purchases.
It is human nature to assume that buying objects will ultimately make us happier in the long run then purchasing experiences right? It’s a pretty fair assumption considering the things we buy stay with us as long as they still …show more content…
Our happiness is defined through anticipation. The anticipation for events such as a “wedding” or a “concert” (Hamblin, 2015) is much more positive then the impatient nature of waiting for a possession that you will purchase. The author began the article with statistics sharing that our mind wonders “forty-seven percent of the time” (Hamblin, 2015) while we do anything like reading or listening to someone speak. Which brings up our first evidence of effective writing. The author points out that our mind wonders while we read, and we are currently reading an article... It sure does make you think and understand what the author means! The author then goes on to quote and reference very credible people like Mathew Killings from Harvard, arguably the greatest college in the Unites States. As the other continues to talk about the idea of anticipation it is important to see fact that once you buy an object you learn to adapt to it like everything else in life which makes you appreciate it less. Whereas when your done …show more content…
One of those was emotional engagement or imagery. In the beginning the author uses pathos in a very emotionally relatable way, taking common emotions in our life and connecting them to his ideas. For example, in the beginning Mathew Killings uses the examples of “having sex”(Hamblin, 2015) or listening to people talk to show how much our mind wanders. That is an effective form of communication to the audience because it causes us to think about when we might have experienced those things and the emotions that went through our heads at the time. Later in the text the author is trying to get across the idea that the extent of excitement you get from purchasing a product ends at the anticipation of it by giving an example of waiting for a package and it not being fast enough. I think this tool is meant to do two different things. One being that it shows us how different our emotions are when it comes to buying things instead of experiences and also it is intended to relate his idea to the emotions you would get in that situation that we have all been in. The author also puts a picture in our head early about a “couch” that creates “Hedonic adaptation” (Hamblin, 2015) which is adapting to products you buy. The relation he was making was to a couch that you live with every day that you don’t think much about. If we take a step back and think about our couch, it really means
It is human nature to assume that buying objects will ultimately make us happier in the long run then purchasing experiences right? It’s a pretty fair assumption considering the things we buy stay with us as long as they still …show more content…
Our happiness is defined through anticipation. The anticipation for events such as a “wedding” or a “concert” (Hamblin, 2015) is much more positive then the impatient nature of waiting for a possession that you will purchase. The author began the article with statistics sharing that our mind wonders “forty-seven percent of the time” (Hamblin, 2015) while we do anything like reading or listening to someone speak. Which brings up our first evidence of effective writing. The author points out that our mind wonders while we read, and we are currently reading an article... It sure does make you think and understand what the author means! The author then goes on to quote and reference very credible people like Mathew Killings from Harvard, arguably the greatest college in the Unites States. As the other continues to talk about the idea of anticipation it is important to see fact that once you buy an object you learn to adapt to it like everything else in life which makes you appreciate it less. Whereas when your done …show more content…
One of those was emotional engagement or imagery. In the beginning the author uses pathos in a very emotionally relatable way, taking common emotions in our life and connecting them to his ideas. For example, in the beginning Mathew Killings uses the examples of “having sex”(Hamblin, 2015) or listening to people talk to show how much our mind wanders. That is an effective form of communication to the audience because it causes us to think about when we might have experienced those things and the emotions that went through our heads at the time. Later in the text the author is trying to get across the idea that the extent of excitement you get from purchasing a product ends at the anticipation of it by giving an example of waiting for a package and it not being fast enough. I think this tool is meant to do two different things. One being that it shows us how different our emotions are when it comes to buying things instead of experiences and also it is intended to relate his idea to the emotions you would get in that situation that we have all been in. The author also puts a picture in our head early about a “couch” that creates “Hedonic adaptation” (Hamblin, 2015) which is adapting to products you buy. The relation he was making was to a couch that you live with every day that you don’t think much about. If we take a step back and think about our couch, it really means