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Seamwork Radio: Sewing and Creativity

The Paradox of Choice

Seamwork Radio: Sewing and Creativity

Colette Media

Sewing, Dressmaking, Crafts, Sew, Hobbies, Fashion, Craft, Making, Arts, Knitting, Clothing, Fashion & Beauty, Leisure, Sustainability, Hobby, Wardrobe, Creativity

4.9763 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Having a bunch of choices gives you the illusion of liberty—look at all your options! However, when you have many options, have you ever felt really restricted instead of free to decide? It’s the paradox of choice.

In this episode of the podcast, Sarai and Haley explore why having more options can lead to less action, what causes indecision in sewing, and tips for making choices a lot easier and clearer for yourself.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Sari and I'm Haley and this is Seamwork Radio.

0:10.1

Welcome back to Seamwork Radio where we share practical ideas for building a creative process

0:14.9

so you can sew with intention and joy. And today we're talking about how to make decisions

0:20.7

when you have almost unlimited options.

0:23.9

So we're going to cover why more options leads to less action, what causes indecision in sewing,

0:31.4

and our system for making choices a lot easier and clearer for yourself. All right, Our icebreaker for today. What's the most

0:39.6

random or weirdest thing you've ever made, Haley? Oh, man. I've made a lot of random stuff over the

0:48.7

years. I think that some of the stuff that stands out to me is when I used to take like contract

0:53.8

sewing gigs.

0:55.8

I got hired a lot for like people making like wanting to make like curtains and pillows, which is not that weird.

1:02.5

But I would make weird pillows.

1:05.2

One time I made pillows for someone's dungeon type space.

1:09.8

That was weird.

1:11.5

What did they look like?

1:12.4

Were they like velvet?

1:13.3

They were velvet.

1:14.2

They were purple velvet.

1:15.5

I'm like, who's this for, prince?

1:17.3

Like, what's happening?

1:18.6

Of course they have to be velvet.

1:21.4

And they were like, were tufted and all of the buttons were, they were not peachy.

1:30.5

The other weird.

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