Where does false value come from?
Sometimes we value things that aren't valuable at all. Here are six causes of our misassessment.

From my vantage point in the red pleather booth, I could see people passing by in the mall. “When is it going to get here?” I asked. Again.
“Here it comes,” my mother said, tracing the movements of our server like a military commander scanning a radar screen. (It’s a lot of work taking children out to eat).
I knew my order by heart: “I want this (index finger pressed on the cheerful image of a scoop of ice cream with Reese’s Pieces for eyes and a chocolate dipped waffle cone for a hat) with cookie dough ice cream and extra Reese’s Pieces.”
After what seemed like an eternity, the server placed my Cone Head™ sundae on the table in front of me. I’d learned that they put some Reese’s Pieces in the hat and that they put a lot in the bottom of the silver sundae dish. Grabbing my spoon, I set to work eating my ice cream in a way that revealed the buried treasure underneath so I cou…
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