Piotr Winkielman

How many stairs would you climb for that payoff? Ozgur Donmaz/DigitalVision via Getty Images

Hard work feels worth it, but only after it’s done – new research on how people value effort

Researchers probed what psychologists call the ‘paradox of effort’ to learn how different people value work they could do in the future or that they’ve already accomplished in the past.

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