Psychologists checked, and what your car cost has zero effect on how happy you feel driving it to work. Jaylen Brown makes $57 million a year, and when someone asked about his favorite purchase, he named a gold harp. He has a harpist come over twice a week to play it while the sun goes down and his chef cooks dinner. Funny enough, that's pretty close to what happiness researchers would set up if you handed them his bank account. The car study comes from University of Michigan psychologist Norbert Schwarz. He asked a bunch of drivers how they felt on their last commute, then looked up what they drove. Blue Book value and how good people felt behind the wheel had a correlation of zero. The fancy car only felt better when the driver was actually paying attention to the car, which mostly happens when it's brand new or when it's falling apart. You're happy about whatever you're paying attention to, and you stop paying attention to stuff that just sits there. Give it a year and a $300,000 car is a couch with wheels. A harpist in your living room is really hard to tune out. There's a person in your house playing music with their hands, and no two nights sound exactly the same. Then there's the schedule. Twice a week means five nights without it, and that turns out to matter a lot. Researchers had people give up chocolate for a week while another group ate as much as they wanted. When everyone came back for one more piece, the people who'd gone without enjoyed it way more, and the people who binged actually liked it less than they had at the start. Another team tried it with massages. Put a 20-second break in the middle, and people liked the whole massage more and would pay more to get it again. So every time the harpist shows up, Jaylen's had a few days off from it, and it hits fresh again. He also hooked it to sunset and dinner, which happen every night anyway, so it slots right into the evening. The harp itself barely dents him. Lyon & Healy's gold concert harps run about $70,000 to $260,000 new. He makes about $696,000 per regular-season game, so even their top model costs him around 37% of one game check. You can steal the cheap version of this. Take the thing you love most, cut it back to a couple times a week, and watch how much more you look forward to it.