Hyperopics and the All-Inclusive Vacation

I just got back from six days in the Dominican Republic with my husband and three kids. It was the first time we stayed at an all-inclusive resort, and I learned some important lessons about happiness – specifically for hyperopic people like myself. Hyperopia is an excess of far-sightedness. Hyperopics tend to think too much about the future, and save like crazy for retirement and college. "Carpe diem" isn't in our vocabulary.

Columbia University researcher Ran Kivetz has conducted 20...