Intrinsic worth and effort
We used to drive, or walk for a good thirty minutes or more to our local library, to get our hands on a book that we have been thinking about for days. Sometimes after our long trip to the library, we were told that the book was not available because somenone else has just borrowed the only existing copy.
The sheer amount of effort expended to carve out an hour or two out of our busy day, deal with traffic and finally get to the library, bestowed upon the book a high value.
The sheer amount of information available and the ease with which we have access to it makes it harder for us value it which sometimes encourages superficial perusing rather than deep studying.
The value we place on things fluctuates depending on how much effort and energy we expend to get them.
That's the paradigm most of us have, and we, sometimes, need to go against it, and try to disassociate the wide availability of products from their intrinsic worth.
The sheer amount of information available and the ease with which we have access to it makes it harder for us value it which sometimes encourages superficial perusing rather than deep studying.
The value we place on things fluctuates depending on how much effort and energy we expend to get them.
That's the paradigm most of us have, and we, sometimes, need to go against it, and try to disassociate the wide availability of products from their intrinsic worth.
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