Our 20s are sold to us as this decade when the world is our oyster. We can do absolutely anything that we want, it's when life really begins. But choice in this instance can actually be a double edged sword. Having too many approximately equally good options is mentally draining because each option must be weighted against alternatives to select the best one. And we become stuck. This is what we call in psychology, choice overload or the paradox of choice.
This week on the podcast we discuss the experience of worrying and overthinking the future. From anticipatory anxiety, the the illusion of control, paradox of choice and self preservation, anxiety about the future has a lot of psychological origins that we will unpack in todays episode to try and find freedom from future spiralling and embrace the moment.
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