Satisficer or Maximizer?

Have you ever read a book that just keeps giving you awesome insights that you find yourself constantly writing down or taking note of? I know I have! 

I am just about to finish the book The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin and I have fallen in love.  Every chapter is a different month of her happiness adventure and I am always finding myself mimicking the things that she does for that month, but I wanted to talk specifically about the month of July or "Buy Some Happiness."

http://www.happiness-project.com/

For the month of July, Rubin discusses the topic of "buying happiness" and this one struck me pretty strongly because of the fact that she argued that you could, in fact,  buy happiness.  Such a strange concept when the world has been telling us, "Money cannot buy happiness."  She discusses how money cannot buy the happiness itself, but by investing some of our money (or indulging in a modest splurge), we can help build our happiness.  But that is not specifically what I wanted to discuss from this chapter.  I wanted to discuss the question: are you a Satisficer or a Maximizer?

A Satisficer is someone (when related to spending money and making decisions) who make a decision or take action once their criteria are met, while a Maximizer is someone who wants to make the optimal decision (Rubin 2009).  If I had to classify myself, I would say that I lean more toward the Satisficer side of the coin but when it comes to making big decisions, I tend to fall on the Maximizer side.  

According to Rubin, Satisficers tend to be happier than Maximizers.  This is because Maximizers spend a great deal of time making decisions and once a decision has been made they tend to feel anxiety over whether they made the right choice.  That is why I would say that I fall on the Maximizer side of the coin when it comes to making big decisions because I often find myself worrying that we spent too much money on one thing when we could have used it elsewhere.  Plus, I often wonder if the big decision I made (like dropping out of graduate school) was the right decision in the long run.  When I Google image searched "Satisficer vs. Maximizer" the image below is what I found and it seemed rather fitting as a way to describe a Maximizer (and it made me giggle).  

So here is my question for you: 

Are you a Satisficer or a Maximizer?