Why Am I So Obsessed With Giving People Gifts?

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by Paige Cohen

December 10, 2020Klaus Vedfelt/ Getty Images
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In the fall of 2018, I spent the majority of December cooped up inside my apartment, hand-painting Bitmojis of my coworkers onto wine glasses. I baked them in the oven to ensure they would be dishwasher safe and wrapped them in glossy gold paper. A few days before people left for vacation, I snuck into the office around 6 am, and like an elf, I placed the gifts on their desks and waited.

Paige Cohen (they/them) is a senior editor at Harvard Business Review.
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