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The Choices Before Us

Hidden Brain

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Is There a Point at Which We Can't Have Too Much Choice?

i think choice plays three fundamental functions for us. We feel happy when we have the feeling that we have autonomy or some kind of control. The third function that choice makes is it's because of our ability to choose that we're able to create new choices. Having the freedom to imagine choices and to make those choices is a good thing. But is there a point at which we can have too much of this good thing? Many years ago, shina was on a plane. A passenger sitting next to her excitedly told her about a study she had read that had to do with jam what the passenger didn't know was that shina had conduct that study herself....

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