Showing posts with label paradox of choice. Show all posts
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Saturday, 22 October 2011

The Paradox of Choice: Freedom versus Paralysis

For those of you interested in finding out more about Barry Schwartz's theory on the paradox of choice which I touched upon in a previous article, here is his talk on TED:



My question is this: who decides how big our fishbowl should be and is not having someone else decide on the extent of our choice a sort of self-imposed paralysis?