The Paradox of Choice
| April 3, 2012 | Posted by under Frugal Entertainment, Video Blog Posts |
This lecture would be particularly useful for my younger audience. No wonder so many 20-something’s are lost in life these days. This TED talk is only 19 minutes, I promise you’ll learn something and start looking at things differently now. Amazing.
THE PARADOX OF CHOICE – TED TALKS (19mins)
This man has also written a book about it: The Paradox of Choice
Enjoy, let me know what you thought about it!
This was thought-provoking. We do have too many choices. I get boggled by them, and then I usually don’t make a choice/buy/try to do without. It makes life easier.
In the last year I have tried to make the workings of my life more simple to enable other bits of life to have more depth.
I no longer run around town to do the marketing … I use the small shop around the corner where there are only TWO brands of tinned tomatoes available! Wonder I am surviving eh? They supply seasonal veg with only a few imports.
I have a fortnightly rota of recipes so no longer spend time flipping through my recipe books.
I buy my clothes from two on-line retailers & all shoes, boots from another.
I am tired of making decisions about things that make no real diff to my life.
I spend a lot of time reading & watching things on-line (oh, I got rid of my telly)… I also walk a great deal.
I recently changed jobs with my new post being so close I can walk to work.
time goes by very quickly … tick, tock, tick, tock …
Bethany & Kim, it’s amazing how ineffective we can become if we have too many choices! With groceries, I no longer go to the grocery store and only go to the health food store which is small and the farmers market. My shopping takes me a fraction of the time and what I take home is also better. This can be applied to many areas in our lives and I am still trying to minimize my own choices.