Plan Late Vacation Activities to Help You Remember
When planning your vacation, it’s easy to pre-load all the fun because you want to get there as soon as possible, but The Wall Street Journal suggests keeping the best last for last if you really want reliable memories.
When we think back to a vacation, we tend to judge what it was like in terms of how it ended. This is at least partly due to the peak-end rule , a psychological heuristic that assumes that we remember experiences based on their most stressful moments and their endings, rather than the sum of the experiences. To take advantage of this quirk of the brain, The Wall Street Journal suggests keeping a couple of activities that you enjoy the most for the end, or even just waiting and spending money on that business class upgrade on the way home, rather than on the way out. …
The smartest way to spend your vacation | Wall Street Magazine