The Paradox of Choice - The Problem With Too Many Choices

[@Baulx138]

This just made me realize the source of my suffering. "What do I want as a career, who will I accept as a partner, who will I make as a friend." All of these choices, and this causes more doubt on if I made the right choice on either of those. I now see why people love their family, because they didn't choose them. I see how people in arranged marriage could be life long partners, and I see how a man becomes a farmer like his father and is happy.

[@GeekyMino]

I loved this idea “if you didn’t have the option to choose you don’t feel responsible for your decisions”. We should take full responsibility for our actions and keep in mind that any decision is better than no decision. I like how you reduce your options. What helps me is the minimalizam lifestyle and the 80/20 rule. But most importantly of all is knowing what we want. It’s much easier to filter our options knowing this 😃

[@FreedomKingdom]

Correct, however many times people don't know what they want, or think they know, so it's good to also stay open-minded and embrace what comes :)

[@GeekyMino]

FreedomKingdom yes, thats true 😁

[@rea8585]

Let's not even mention how much time we spend when we are making a choice. Looking for the best deal, surfing on the internet and comparing prices we forget that time is money too.

[@FreedomKingdom]

Right, it's a time killer..

[@beforemidnight9450]

I Love how the word choice is thrown around in Life as if choice is real...Choice is not real/reality because choosing to stay before parents meet should have been an option

[@elenasavin1289]

Thank you

[@deyanmitev9295]

This should have way more views. BTW you should look up escapism, consumerism and propaganda you might find it interesting and do a video about it!

[@FreedomKingdom]

I will check it out, thank you for the advice Deyan!

[@EddieStyle]

Great video, good job!

[@ronnopoland]

Excellent video. Subscribed.

[@EsDHB3K]

Great and positive Video !

[@FreedomKingdom]

:D

[@Majd_Berlin]

Thanks! Very useful :)

[@Husholdninger]

Dont fall in love with the menu. ;)

[@ajmarr5671]

The Tyranny of Choice and the One Track Mind Schwartz noted from an abundance of sociological evidence that the increase in choices marked by the post industrial world is directly correlated with a rise in unhappiness. An abundance of choices means that we are more likely to suffer an opportunity loss for alternatives foregone, and that our adaptation to choices we make lead to the uncomfortable perception that the grass is always greener next door. So what is Schwartz’s prescription? It is to simply limit choice. The problem with this remedy is that neurologically, people (and indeed most living things) are neurologically wired to be aroused or find pleasure in the apprehension of choice, or in other words, looking forward to things. The apprehension of future choices, or ‘wanting’, is core to modern neuroscientific explanations of motivation, thus rendering Schwartz’s contrarian argument as neurologically unrealistic. Rather, it is in the execution and not in the apprehension of choice that unhappiness looms, and it may be argued that it is not choices per se that make us miserable, but the present ability to make choices at any time. For example, in 1955 we could check our mail, our stocks, see our favorite TV show, or even chat on the phone only at specified times and places. Nowadays, we can do all of these things at any place and any time. The result is a world that not only multiplies hopes (or choices), but multiplies distractions. In the past, distractions were limited, now they are everywhere, and the modern problem becomes not what to choose, but when to choose. So not limiting but delaying choice is perhaps a better remedy for the tyranny of choice. But this simple and obvious solution eludes Schwartz because he fails to recognize that the apprehension of choices is not just a rational but an affective thing, and that the prospect of infinite choice (or freedom) is as innate and important to us as taking a breath. from Dr. Mezmer’s World of Bad Psychology, at doctormezmer.com

[@kirktizon8061]

but you just said it what Schwartz had already said. More choice = Distractions (because you look for other things instead of having only to choose from less things/wants). You can execute a choice if there were less of them. The concept of freedom you had wrongly defined. Freedom is to live in a world and do what you want with your life without breaking other people's liberties.

[@jboxy]

programming

[@boomerangfish3558]

its the reason why I dont play any of my 250 games on steam

[@youspace5960]

Hey there, your vidous are awesome just use hashtag

[@adeyabebaabebe8745]

God gave us free will..but gave us two options...male or female, heaven or hell....less is more

[@FreedomKingdom]

Indeed :)

[@MindBitX]

So... To be consequent start by closing your channel