This is Optimal Living Daily episode 3095, simplifying the little areas of life by Amy Stots with no sidebar.com.

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Simplifying the little areas of life by Amy Stots with no sidebar dot com.

Most of the time I'm not very good at decisions.

I get stuck wanting to find the best option and don't want to settle for one that's just good enough.

When there are 37 different things to choose from on Amazon, this can be hard.

I get paralyzed from too many options and end up not making a decision at all and from what I've read I'm not alone in this

Barry Schwartz illustrates this idea in his book, The Paradox of Choice.

He discusses a study in which researchers set up two displays of jams in a food store.

One display had six choices, the other had 24. They found that 30% of the customers exposed to the six choices bought a

jar while only 3% exposed to the 24 choices did the same. This isn't the only study that has such findings either.

I guess we all need to take the saying variety is the spice of life with a grain of salt. Too many choices can be

detrimental. That's why simplifying your life can feel so good. It's why you hear

about people like Mark Zuckerberg Bill Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs wearing the same clothes every day.

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