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Dear Dan,

On a flight for a recent business trip, a new member of my team was offered a free upgrade. He turned it down. Why in the world would someone pass that up?

—Gus

Sitting in an upgraded cabin with more legroom and free drinks certainly sounds like the more enjoyable travel experience. But your co-worker might have decided that staying with the team was of greater importance, especially since he’s a new member. And maybe he was correct.

In 2014, researchers published a paper called “The Unforeseen Costs of Extraordinary Experience,” in which they showed that while certain experiences (trải nghiệm) may themselves be amazing (tuyệt vời), they can also have a downside when they are not shared (chia sẻ) by everyone in a social group. The researchers found that when people who had amazing experiences recounted them to their social groups, they often suffered negative social consequences (hậu quả xã hội tiêu cực) and sometimes ended up feeling worse than those who didn’t have the extraordinary experiences at all.

You certainly don’t have to turn down opportunities to have extraordinary experiences. But while traveling with a group of new colleagues (đồng nghiệp), maybe your team-member had reason to be mindful (lưu tâm, quan tâm) of the trade-off (đánh đổi) between the lure (nhử mồi, dỗ dành, quyến rũ, cám dỗ) of an upgrade and the possible social cost.

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