Limited Choice is Good

Daily Boost — Motivation and Coaching

Scott Smith

Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness, Business

3.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

My wife and I were looking for something on Netflix and found ourselves repeating the scroll a couple of times. Finally, the screen changed, and the graphic offered us a choice. It said, "just play something?" Yes, please. Just play something, so I can put the remote control down and get back to petting my dog. Thinking back on the moment, I was reminded of a book I read a long time ago. In 2005, Barry Schwartz wrote Paradox of Choice. It challenged the traditional thinking that said the way to maximum freedom is to maximize choice. It may feel good, but too many choices lead to decision fatigue. Yes, too many choices are not necessarily a good thing, and they can create paralysis. Not to mention, no matter what you choose, you'll always wonder if you could have done better. Here's my advice to you: 1) Limit your choices. Having every option won't serve you. Narrow your list to things that truly get your attention. 2) If you find yourself confused, permit yourself to try other options. 3) If in doubt, choose to spend your time and attention on what you know gives you the results you want. There will always be too many choices in our modern life, but that doesn't mean you need to accept what is offered. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We can't is nearly here and it is party time of the year isn't it so a lot of folks
0:24.1	can get us one this year. Social separation as you step up to the bar saying so
0:30.8	limited choice. Listen if you can't laugh and smile but it's going on this crazy
0:35.5	world right now something's wrong. Limited choice is a good thing we'll talk
0:40.3	about the day we have too many choices in our world and it's a good thing to
0:43.9	have it there's no doubt about it means freedom for most people but it is
0:46.8	difficult we'll chat about that today for you okay it is the daily boost from
0:50.8	motivation to move dot com the positive boost you need every single day
0:55.2	practical as well it's a really simple philosophy and the more I live the
1:01.8	more I the more I just know it to be true it's just all the agendas and all the
1:06.4	cheater chatter is going on around you and inside your own head and
1:08.8	everything else it makes it so difficult it's very simple what we do here when
1:11.8	when you understand that the very very very the stoic philosophy nobody else
1:15.8	is the stoic said this action life begins when you move that's that's but you
1:21.1	know what came before action clarity came before action if you don't know
1:25.6	where you're heading the action so lots of times you're stuck in your your
1:28.2	where you are it's because you just don't know where you're going to go when we
1:32.4	talked about that yesterday so then we move on to choice today which we'll talk
1:35.3	about but it's a very simple concept life begins when you move life is going to
1:39.0	get in the way we get practical we think it through we stand up we take a step
1:42.4	we repeat till we get what we want that's it that's that's the whole recipe it's
1:45.9	me Scott Smith good have you a little bit of a common sense guy with the the
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