Water is priceless and cheap, diamonds are useless and expensive. Value is weird. Decide yours on purpose.

Price and worth are set by different systems, and only one of them has anything to do with you. Scarcity and what other people want determine what things cost, while what improves your life follows a separate list. Left alone, you will inherit someone else’s ranking without noticing you did.

Write down five things that genuinely make your weeks better and see how much they cost. Then look at what you spend most on and whether it appears on that list. Deciding your own order once is worth more than a hundred choices made by default.