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You 2.0: Decide Already!

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Why More Choice Always Means More Happiness

When we make a decision, pick one of two alternatives, we often end up wondering how we could ever have dreamed of choosing the other choice. When you've made an irrevocable decision, you rationalize it. Once something's gone and gone forever, the mind gets to work figuring out why it got is better than what it lost. But when a decision isn't irrevocable, you just ruminate about it any time you can take it back. And every time,. you'll put it on the mirror and you'll think: Maybe it's not a good fit or maybe it's not even a good color. You once subscribed to the very popular belief that i still subscribe to

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