Almost (?) the same thing, but I actually pay for the privilege of cold soaks in Japanese/Korean spa centres. Quite tempted to save myself some money by procuring a large enough receptacle in which I can sit, that can be filled with ice water.
Jules On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 at 17:18, Huda Masood via Silklist < [email protected]> wrote: > Clearly I cannot afford this but I still want to test the > longevity/sustainability of this decision - that USD 500 is enough. > > Can you convince yourself that you receive 500 dollars worth of health, > motivation and resilience benefits to withstand 180 seconds of 12-15 > centigrade water every. Single. Day. for a week? > > My assumption is that you’ll decide it isn’t worth it, even for USD 500. > > My motivation for cold showers (6 months of pure agony, I’ll add) is > twofold and deeply personal -watching my father die -cancer- and be > miserable about being cold, and my own mental health benefits enormously > from it (it is the hardest thing I can do in a day, everything else is a > piece of cake). But no amount of money would incentivise me to do this. > > Huda Masood > +91 9886796967 > > > On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 at 02:37, Charles Haynes <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I would do the shower thing for somewhere between USD$100 and USD$500 per >> day. ($100 is probably not enough, $500 definitely is.) >> >> One learning about money is that looking at investments daily makes me >> unhappy and that for me the "asymmetry of happiness" is real - that losing >> $100 makes me more unhappy than winning $100 would (and it's not just about >> the non-linearity of the value of money, but it may be an endowment >> effect). So in circumstances where good and bad things are both likely to >> happen relatively frequently I try to "smooth out" the frequency by >> checking less often. >> >> On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 at 07:52, Huda Masood via Silklist < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Tell me then, in what other areas of your life have you applied the new >>> learnings with money? >>> >>> I find the human relationship with money extraordinarily interesting. My >>> current social experiment is asking how much could I pay them to take a 3 >>> minute cold shower every day, for a whole year. No hot water before or >>> after. >>> >>> I’ve had no takers so far. Everyone wriggles out with some condition or >>> the other. No amount of money is incentive enough. >>> >>> But they’d happily do it if family was in danger or they could work half >>> time for the same pay. >>> >>> I find that very telling. >>> >>> Huda Masood >>> +91 9886796967 >>> >>> >>> On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 at 18:27, Christopher A Kantarjiev via Silklist < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> On 1/24/24 10:16 PM, Udhay Shankar N via Silklist wrote: >>>> >>>> > Very interesting thought. The most thought-provoking part is >>>> "changing >>>> > your mental model" which resonated with me, because the mental model >>>> > which causes this to be an issue in the first place is "Am I being >>>> taken >>>> > advantage of?" (which is completely different from "Can I afford >>>> this?" >>>> > which requires a separate thread, I think.) >>>> >>>> Yes ... I grew up in a household where my father tracked every penny of >>>> expenses and basically invented a double-entry bookkeeping system so he >>>> could resolve his cash accounts Sunday night. I guess it was "fun" for >>>> him, but hell for everyone else when he wandered the house saying >>>> "where >>>> did I spent twelve cents?". >>>> >>>> It came both from a history of not having enough (he lived through WWII >>>> in Germany) and a fear of being taken advantage of ... which I, >>>> somewhat >>>> unfortunately, inherited. >>>> >>>> Those two things were very intertwined in my attitude towards money, >>>> and >>>> this experience was a big step in learning to let go of them. >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Silklist mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://mailman.panix.com/listinfo.cgi/silklist >>>> >>> -- >>> Silklist mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://mailman.panix.com/listinfo.cgi/silklist >>> >> -- > Silklist mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.panix.com/listinfo.cgi/silklist >
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