By Kim and Jason Kotecki
“Would you like fries with that?”
This simple yet brilliant question helped McDonald’s make billions.
It eventually morphed into, “Would you like to super-size that?” which became a symbol of our culture’s nasty habit of overconsumption.
Indeed, we are conditioned to want more stuff. Bigger homes. Better appliances. Faster cars. Fancier vacations. I’m skeptical whether we are better off because of it.
But there’s one question we should ask ourselves more often. It has the benefit of not only leaving our waistlines intact and our homes less cluttered, but would decrease our overall stress levels as well:
“Would you like fun with that?”
I’ve never encountered a study alerting us to the negative effects of too much fun, and indeed, the... More...
