Maximizing the Peak-End Rule: Navigating Furloughs and Layoffs

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When my partner and I attended a childbirth session for our first baby, the instructor introduced us to the Peak-End Rule. This psychological principle, coined by Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman, suggests that people’s memories of an experience are most influenced by the emotional peak and the ending, rather than the overall duration of the event. The instructor…