{"id":389,"date":"2007-06-08T12:16:22","date_gmt":"2007-06-08T17:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devinreams.com\/2007\/06\/08\/the-paradox-of-choice-by-barry-schwartz\/"},"modified":"2007-06-08T12:16:22","modified_gmt":"2007-06-08T17:16:22","slug":"the-paradox-of-choice-by-barry-schwartz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/?p=389","title":{"rendered":"The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The full title of the book is: <span class=\"highlight\">The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less, How the Culture of Abundance Robs Us of Satisfaction<\/span>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Paradox-Choice-Why-More-Less\/dp\/0060005688\">Here it is on Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t<strong>Devin determined&#8230;<\/strong> this book is a must-read. Some parts get a little complicated for just a quick read. But, at 240 pages this is a a fun look at the societal and psychological issues we face.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe areas explored are summed up with the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;our experience of <span class=\"highlight\">choice as a burden rather than a privilege<\/span> is not a simple phenomenon. Rather it is the result of a complex interaction among many psychological processes that permeate our culture, including rising expectations, awareness of opportunity costs, aversion to trade-offs, adaptation, regret, self-blame, the tendency to engage in social comparisons, and maximizing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\tThe last chapter goes on to highlight and explain how we can try to avoid these issues (regret leading to depression, leading to suicide; comparing to neighbors and having regret; post-decision regret). A lot of it has to do with accepting &#8220;good enough&#8221; which <a href=\"http:\/\/dilbertblog.typepad.com\/the_dilbert_blog\/2007\/06\/golden_happines.html\">Scott Adams recently talked about on his blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\tAgain, <span class=\"highlight\">I recommend the book because it may help you see your decisions a little differently<\/span>. At the same time, it helps understand the psychology behind others&#8217; decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The full title of the book is: The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less, How the Culture of Abundance Robs Us of Satisfaction. Here it is on Amazon. Devin determined&#8230; this book is a must-read. Some parts get a little complicated for just a quick read. But, at 240 pages this is a a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,83,586],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","tag-people","tag-reading","tag-reviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}