The Paradox of Choice

Published by jim on 5/20/2005 in


“The Paradox Of Choice: Why More Is Less” (Barry Schwartz)
So this is one of the books I plowed through while down in Key West. It was a quick read and gave more substantive form to some ideas that have been floating nebulously around in my head for several months now.

Several months ago I posted about how my music library had grown so large, I wasn’t sure what to listen to and that post kicked of an internal dialogue that is captured nicely by the book’s sub-sub title How the culture of abundance robs us of satisfaction.

[oof. i’d written about 1,200 words on this book but my blogging client decided to play zen trickster on me and teach me a good lesson about impermanence. Either that or a lesson about why not to use a blogging client as a word processor ;-) ]

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