1. satisficing - Adjective
2. satisficing - Verb
satisficing
present participle of satisfice
satisficing (not comparable)
Satisfying and sufficient
Recent research in social psychology has shown that happy people are not people who have more; rather, they are people who are happy with what they already have. Happy people engage in satisficing all of the time, even if they don't know it. Daniel Levitin
Since my world picture approximates reality only crudely, I cannot aspire to optimize anything; at most, I can aim at satisficing. Searching for the best can only dissipate scarce cognitive resources; the best is the enemy of the good. (p.361) Herbert Simon
Most of us have adopted a strategy to get along called satisficing. Daniel Levitin