Building something can make you value it more. The catch: the extra value seems to need a finished product — and it can blur how you judge the plans you make yourself.
Three things from the essay:
• In one study, people who assembled a plain IKEA box bid about 63% more for it than people shown the same box already built.
• The premium collapsed when a Lego model was taken apart, and was much smaller when a box's assembly was interrupted.
• Judging your plan as if a stranger made it can help separate attachment from quality.
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