Median party conversation is probably about as good as playing a video game I enjoy, or reading a good blog post. Value maybe £2/hr. More tiring than the equivalent activity.
Top 10% party conversation is somewhere around going for a hike somewhere very beautiful near to where I live, or watching an excellent film. Value maybe £5/hr. These are about as tiring as the equivalent activity.
Best conversations I’ve ever had were on par with an equal amount of time spent on a 1/year quality holiday, like to Europe (I live in the UK) but not to, say, Madagascar. Most of these conversations went on for >1 hr. Value maybe 25/hr. Less tiring and if anything energizing.
(For monetary values I’m imagining what I’d pay to go to a party for 4 hours where that event woud occur. My overall income minus expenses is probably a bit below average for the UK, so take that into account.)
Median party conversation is probably about as good as playing a video game I enjoy, or reading a good blog post. Value maybe £2/hr. More tiring than the equivalent activity.
Top 10% party conversation is somewhere around going for a hike somewhere very beautiful near to where I live, or watching an excellent film. Value maybe £5/hr. These are about as tiring as the equivalent activity.
Best conversations I’ve ever had were on par with an equal amount of time spent on a 1/year quality holiday, like to Europe (I live in the UK) but not to, say, Madagascar. Most of these conversations went on for >1 hr. Value maybe 25/hr. Less tiring and if anything energizing.
(For monetary values I’m imagining what I’d pay to go to a party for 4 hours where that event woud occur. My overall income minus expenses is probably a bit below average for the UK, so take that into account.)