IKEA effect

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The IKEA effect makes bad output hard to throw away people overvalue things they helped build.

Prompting, iterating, and steering a model toward a result creates a feeling of authorship, even if you couldn't have written or debugged the result yourself.

That attachment makes it harder to discard bad output and start over, and starting over is often the cheapest move.

So I just think it's good karma.

And the reason why I call this the Ikea effect is because I'm gonna teach you how to approach those people, interact with them, and really get them to sell them to you in a reverse way.

You know, there's this great line in a Pitbull song called, ask for money, get advice, ask for advice, get money twice.

Yeah, I just quoted Pitbull.

We're talking 3X growth in a 12 month period.

And it requires you to get to know them and really strategize as a way of getting advice and having them sell themselves on you and get committed.

And that's why it's called the Ikea Effect.

You know, when you build the furniture for Ikea, there's been this proven stat that people are more committed or have a higher perceived value to the furniture, not because of the price, but because they actually were involved in putting it together.

I want you to celebrate the fact when you get into the land that the manna is going to stop and that you're going to bring forth your own grain and your own harvest and you're going to bring about all your own stuff.

Like a desire to enjoy and produce the fruitfulness of God that he entrusts you with, right? That is a very good and godly desire, right? So long as you recognize that whether it's manna or that, It's all coming from his graciousness and kindness, right? And I nerded out on this for a minute, but this is called the Ikea effect, right? Really? Like, is this true? So you go to Ikea.

I've never been to Ikea.

Really? I've never, I refuse.

There's famous effects in psychology.

One's called the IKEA effect, which is kind of funny, which is that if you build the IKEA thing yourself, you like it more.

You think it's better just because you put the work into building it right you know if we kind of scale that up to all the cognitive work that our young people are doing like they value these things that they create themselves we also know just from an evolutionary perspective how important effort is there's this funny phenomena called contra freeloading in animals what is that you give animals the opportunity to just get some free reward that they just don't have to do anything to get versus something that they put more work into they prefer to do the thing where they get more work and they wind up kind of healthier afterwards doing this and so i think that we know that challenge makes us feel good.

We've known this since the classic work of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, who studied this concept of flow.

There's actually, there's a study on it.

It's called the IKEA Effect.

I just was going to say, did you know that's the IKEA Effect? Did you know about that? Yeah.

Do you know it's one of the cognitive biases? How many are there?

I don't know.

I think I know about five.

Should we play

the Ikea effect?

So I just think it's good karma.

And the reason why I call this the Ikea effect is because I'm gonna teach you how to approach those people, interact with them, and really get them to sell them to you in a reverse way.

You know, there's this great line in a Pitbull song called, ask for money, get advice, ask for advice, get money twice.

Yeah, I just quoted Pitbull.

We're talking 3X growth in a 12 month period.

And it requires you to get to know them and really strategize as a way of getting advice and having them sell themselves on you and get committed.

And that's why it's called the Ikea Effect.

You know, when you build the furniture for Ikea, there's been this proven stat that people are more committed or have a higher perceived value to the furniture, not because of the price, but because they actually were involved in putting it together.