{"id":1575,"date":"2026-04-20T12:44:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T12:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/life.bchenstudios.com\/?p=1575"},"modified":"2026-04-20T12:45:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T12:45:44","slug":"the-fixer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/life.bchenstudios.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/the-fixer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fixer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I saw a YouTube video<br>Now it makes sense<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I like to fix rather than replace<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apparently I&#8217;m affected by The Endowment Effect<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have self efficacy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The conflict is: Not everything broken is worth repair<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch this video that describes a lot of my &#8220;why?&#8221; I like to fix stuff<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Psychology of People Who Would Rather Fix Than Replace\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H0t_6-wDqf4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never knew the psychology behind my love to fix things&#8230;.until now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/life.bchenstudios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/life.bchenstudios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/life.bchenstudios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life.bchenstudios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life.bchenstudios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1575"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/life.bchenstudios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1578,"href":"https:\/\/life.bchenstudios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions\/1578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/life.bchenstudios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life.bchenstudios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life.bchenstudios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}