i shop therefore i am::On his current tour it is a small, carved elephant he picked up at a market in thailand.
When he unpacks in his hotel room, the elephant takes a place on the nearest dresser.
In graduate school, i read an essay by an anthropologist who was visiting a museum in canada with an aboriginal young man.
They stopped in front of a large flat bowl on display.
When i was little and it would rain in the village, we would take out this bowl and ride down the flooded streets.
They help us peel our fruit, brush our teeth, run our errands and wake us up.
But can they make us happy?
Like the examples above remind us, objects have stories and the best ones we carry with us our whole lives.
We are hardwired for survival and dopamine helps our system adjust to new situations and hopefully make a choice that both feels good and contributes to our successin whatever form that make take.
Most of us chose a watch based on our lifestyle and how the watch makes us
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