Learning to Stop Before ‘Just Enough’ Becomes ‘Way Too Much’

The phenomenon of liking something less and less, the more and more you do it, or have it, actually has a name. And it’s as close to a law as we get in economics. It’s called the law of diminishing marginal returns.

The law of diminishing marginal returns is one of those fancy academic concepts with a definition a mile long. But strip away the econ professor mumbo jumbo, and you’ll find something you’ve already experienced…

The point is, pleasure fades.

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