In the early 2000s, psychologists from Stanford University decided to set up a store at a local farmers' market. They displayed 24 different types of jams and then on the next day they gave people the choice of only six jars. When people were given just six options, they were much more likely to purchase a jar. The experiment as strange as it sounds can be applied to the paralysis we experience when we're worrying about our future in our twenties. And an amazing reminder that you are not locked into any future for yourself. You have agency, you can change.
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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