Focus on what makes you happy, and do what gives meaning to your life.
If you seek and accept only the best, you are a Maximizer, they need to be assured that every purchase or decision was the best that could be made. Satisficers, on the other hand, will choose something that is good enough and not worry about the possibility that there might be something better.
Something as trivial as a little gift of candy to medical residents improves the speed and accuracy of their diagnoses. In general, positive emotion enables us to broaden our understanding of what confronts us.
We are surrounded by modern, time-saving devices, but we never seem to have enough time.
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
by Barry Schwartz
なぜ選ぶたびに後悔するのか―「選択の自由」の落とし穴
by バリー シュワルツ
translated by 瑞穂 のりこ
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新装版 なぜ選ぶたびに後悔するのか オプション過剰時代の賢い選択術
by バリー シュワルツ
translated by 瑞穂 のりこ
The Paradox of Choice
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice
In the book, Schwartz argues that eliminating consumer choices can greatly reduce anxiety for shoppers.
How we choose
Schwartz describes that a consumer’s strategy for most good decisions will involve these steps:
Schwartz relates the ideas of psychologist Herbert A. Simon from the 1950s to the psychological stress that most consumers face today. He notes some important distinctions between, what Simon termed, maximizers and satisficers. A maximizer is like a perfectionist, someone who needs to be assured that their every purchase or decision was the best that could be made. The way a maximizer knows for certain is to consider all the alternatives they can imagine. This creates a psychologically daunting task, which can become even more daunting as the number of options increases. The alternative to maximizing is to be a satisficer. A satisficer has criteria and standards, but a satisficer is not worried about the possibility that there might be something better. Ultimately, Schwartz agrees with Simon’s conclusion, that satisficing is, in fact, the maximizing strategy.
Why we suffer
Schwartz integrates various psychological models for happiness showing how the problem of choice can be addressed by different strategies. What is important to note is that each of these strategies comes with its own bundle of psychological complication.