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Time off is a scarce resource, and as with any scarce resource, we want to spend it wisely.
Partly, these decisions are matters of taste. But there are also, it turns out, answers to be found in behavioral science, which increasingly is yielding insights that can help us make the most of our leisure time. Psychologists and economists have looked in some detail at vacations — what we want from them and what we actually get out of them.
how long we take off probably counts for less than we think, and in the aggregate, taking more short trips leaves us happier than taking a few long ones.
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- happier planning a trip than actually taking it
- interrupting a vacation — far from being a nuisance — can make us enjoy it more
- How a trip ends matters more than how it begins, who you’re with matters as much as where you go, and if you want to remember a vacation vividly, do something during it that you’ve never done before.
- people, it turns out, are as prone to procrastinate when it comes to pleasurable
- things like vacations
- How do we optimize our vacation?” asks Dan Ariely, a behavioral economist at Duke University and the author of the new book “The Upside of Irrationality.
- There are three elements to it — anticipating, experiencing, and remembering. They’re not the same, and there are different ways to change each.”
- People take vacations for all sorts of reasons beyond pure hedonism — to learn about new places, to test themselves, to placate their children, to bask in the envy of their friends and co-workers.
- vacations are a window into the still only dimly understood mystery of human pleasure, a field known as hedonic psychology.
- if the findings tell us anything, it’s that we might actually need some help.
- no corresponding literature on maximizing our leisure time
- asking the question of how to “optimize” a vacation seems fundamentally un-vacation-like
- how to get the most out of their valuable time off: poring over guidebooks, checking the forecast, looking up online reviews of hotels and restaurants, arguing with spouses over where to go and what to do, and when.
- with an incomplete understanding of what qualities make an experience enjoyable
- Take duration. A longer vacation seems, by definition, better than a shorter one, and having lots of paid vacation time is a highly valued job perk. But when we recall an experience, and how it made us feel, it turns out that length isn’t terribly important
- esser pain at the end of the procedure. Overall, those patients rated the experience as less painful and less unpleasant than others, even though they had been in pain longer.
- what matters far more is the intensity of sensation
- not the overall average of the experience that people remember, but how they felt at the most intense moments, combined with how they felt right as the experience ended.
- peak-end rule.”
- cost for a few more nights in a hotel would mean you wouldn’t be able to afford a coveted splurge dinner or surfing lessons or concert tickets or a rain forest guide — then it makes more sense to just shorten the trip in the interest of making it more intense while you’re there
- they remember them warmly — more warmly, in fact, than they feel while taking them
- least happy about the vacation while they were taking it. Beforehand, they looked forward to it with eager anticipation, and within a few days of returning, they remembered it fondly. But while on it, they found themselves bogged down by the disappointments and logistical headaches of actually going somewhere and doing something, and the pressure they felt to be enjoying themselves
- people have a stubborn unconscious ability to adapt to their circumstances, whether those circumstances are good — like marrying their true love — or bad, like getting divorced. Whether they want to or not, people quickly begin to take things for granted
- constantly varying how we do things
- inoculate a vacationer against the deadening power of adaptation, however, may be the most counterintuitive — to break it up, to interrupt it with real life.
- felt the pain or pleasure more intensely if the experience was stopped and then restarted
- “If you put a disruption in a hedonic experience, it intensifies it,” Nelson says.
- If you partition after each peak experience, then you remember that piece as better than if you partition after each lousy thing
- Odd as it seems, people are often reluctant to take advantage of opportunities for pleasure that they do have, unless they’re in some way compelled
- giving someone longer to redeem a gift certificate actually makes them less likely to do so
- that people who live in cities with major attractions and landmarks are actually less likely to visit those landmarks than tourists are, and likely to only do so when hosting out-of-town guests
- procrastinate, in pleasure as in work.
- part of why we enjoy ourselves on a vacation stems from the fact that it gives us a deadline: an often sharply limited time window during which we have to go out and enjoy ourselves.
- you can give yourself some of the benefits of a vacation without going anywhere, simply by cordoning off a day or two and strictly scheduling it for leisure.
- Give yourself a milestone or a deadline by which you’re going to go do this enjoyable thing,

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