Four ways to combat everyday indecision

Life Kit

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🗓️ 8 March 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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We make so many basic decisions each day that it's easy to fall into "analysis paralysis." We explore where indecision comes from, why so many of us are sweating the small stuff and what you can do about it.

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0:00.0	This is NPR's Life Kit.
0:01.4	I'm Frank Festa.
0:04.2	Deciding between seemingly inconsequential choices
0:06.9	can make me mark up the chalkboard in my head like a mad scientist.
0:10.2	Sometimes, for example, I'd rather not watch anything at all
0:13.2	and go through the trouble of trying to actually find
0:15.2	something to watch on Netflix.
0:17.2	There's literally thousands of options.
0:19.9	Okay, Kevin Hart's in this one, very tempting.
0:22.9	Ooh, selling sunset.
0:26.6	Maybe, maybe not.
0:27.7	Let's see what else we got, though.
0:29.7	Yeah.
0:30.7	Oh, yeah, this is the obvious picture.
0:32.7	It's mine, it's me.
0:33.7	Wow, I didn't know this was on here.
0:35.7	I love this movie.
0:36.7	It took me about 15 minutes to land on this 90s movie, Mars Attacks,
0:40.7	a goofy Tim Burton movie with a million celebrities and yapping aliens
0:43.7	that you should definitely watch if you haven't seen it.
0:46.7	Hey, we all make mistakes, Mr. President.
0:51.7	For me, to be clear, this was a comfort choice more than anything.
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