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Week 12 [18.06-24.06.18] The paradox of choice

All our life we have a lot of choices to make. Girls can't decide what to wear even though they have a full closet and boys don't know what to play with a full library. You may not realize it and take all the variety of products as granted but if you ask you parents the world wasn't always as it is today. Sometimes we hear from our parents that ere-now was better but couldn't answer exactly why. All our life we've been told that more choice is better for us but that is wrong and here is why your parents might have been right:



Questions:

  1. Would you sacrifice choice in favor of bigger satisfaction?
  2. Have you ever regretted your choice  although it was good?
  3. Will this information change anything in your life?


Comments

Unknown said…
If this sacrifice will help me to reach my goal or at least will bring me closer to achieving to what I really seek in my life than yes. But the problem is that in real life you never know for sure if that sacrifice will pay off and as the result, not many of us are ready to take that risk.
If that choice made me satisfied with my expectations or helped me to improve something about my life than I will never regret committing to that choice. In the end, if we are not sure about something in our lives we will never push ourselves to do this.
I think this video changed my perception of this topic at least a little bit, but nothing more.
I would give my vote for bigger satisfaction result. And this topic is all about what you want to reach. If you want to reach small results , you need to sacrifice less, if you want to reach something unordinary and great you need to sacrifice more. That is my opinion. I have a rule in my life that i will not regret for everything that i've done. Not really, just because i'm using these rules every day and every hour.
Unknown said…
I wouldn't sacrifice my choice because if I am the one to make the decision then I take responsibility for my satisfaction or lack of thereof. If I wanted to limit my choice then I can do this by myself. If we decided that we agree to limit our choices then it simply means that someone else will make that choice.
Unknown said…
1. Everything depends on the situation, if making a choice in the direction of the greater, I will not lose what I have, of course. If I had to change less for more, I would have thought, and probably would have done everything to choose, so that I could allow more without risk.
2. No, it would be stupid. I do not regret even a bad choice, because to every choice I make with responsibility and if something does not work out, then it should be so.
3. Of course, I will never buy a child seat with a bunch of functions, because I do not see the point. In general, a very, very positive person and a very interesting presentation. Thank you.
Unknown said…
Well, you don't have to sacrifice all at once. It's enough just to make it with little steps and that will not hurt if goes wrong.
Unknown said…
Wow, so focused. What you are actually aiming for?
Unknown said…
Well that is the thing. Just having more choice already lowers your satisfaction. What's regarding choice that been made for us - we already leave in such world... You can't buy product that somebody else haven't decided to make for you to buy.
Illia Lukisha said…
Would you sacrifice choice in favor of bigger satisfaction?
I think, I would give this idea a try.

Have you ever regretted your choice although it was good?
Yes I did a lot of times, but I try to not regret about past.

Will this information change anything in your life?
Maybe I will regret less about decisions I make :)
I would never sacrifice choice no matter what promises will there be for me. Being able to do life choices on your own and face responsibility for them is what distinguishes a child from a grown person i don't need to become reliant on someone like i was in my childhood, when i can achieve everything that i desire. I do "review" of my life choices every now and then, although it is unnecessary and unchangable the experience and understanding that i am master of my own is good enough. I am not sure that this information will change anything in my life, because i am pretty much adamant on my lifeview.
Unknown said…
In general, the lack of choice scares me a little. Maybe it is because of recent history of my country where a lot of things were forbidden for a long time and where citizens had no right to choose and change. So I think that at this moment I will not sacrifice choice in favor of bigger satisfaction.

I often wonder what would happen if I chose something else or went in a different direction in my life. But I'm happy where I am now, that's why I know that all the decisions I've made have led me to the point in my life where I am now. That's why I do not regret it.

This point of view is very interesting and I think it is very real. I wonder about contemporary society and, for example, about building male-female relationships. For example, in app such as Tinder we have a lot of girls and boys to choose. People meet with many people, often thinking that it is not worth declaring, because maybe you will get to know a better person. As a result, they make no decision. This makes me think that too much choice in the partners and the possibility of meeting them makes us really lonely. So I think that video changed my way of thinking at this situation.
Kristina Moroz said…
Well, I need to choose what I want and what is best for me. I sacrificed a lot for others and not everyone said "thank you" for that. I regret for some of them. So if you need to achieve some goals you need to sacrifice something and the question which one you can sacrifice. So I don't think this could change something.
Unknown said…
It depend's on circumstances because in many cases we have to sacrifice something to achieve the goal, that's just how it works.
No. We shouldn't regreet our decissions, We should learn the lesson and do not repeat the same mistake.
Im 100% sure i have saw this presentation before (this particular ted talk) here.
But anyways i believe i would have not give up "freedom" of choice in favor of "satisfaction" my self esteem and ability to make choices would suffer a great hit.
Hes as many of us i have done many things that were a best or good choice and i have regretted it later mostly due to other people.
Unknown said…
3) I think no
2)Yes, of course, everybody sometime regrets even good choices, because people always think that there was something better)
3)No, never. Choice is a freedom. I would rather make wrong choice by myself than good choice but forced by somebody
Peter Clemenza said…
Would you sacrifice choice in favor of bigger satisfaction?
No, the free choice is the meaning of our lives. Without it, we would have been a prisoners and slaves.

Have you ever regretted your choice although it was good?
I don't recall such situation, but I think some kind of thing have happened.

Will this information change anything in your life?
I have read a a few books where such problem was fairly discussed - Clockwork Orange is one of those examples - where young criminal - Alex was given a special therapy - his ability to choose between good and evil was removed.
Cecylia said…
Personally I would not sacrifice choice for bigger satisfaction. If we have to buy jeans from 150 different types, maybe we have to spend more time in the shop, but if we try on all the types and then finally we have found the perfect type, the satisfaction is much bigger. When I decide to do something I usually do not regret my choice and if choice was good why would I? There had to be reasons why I have chosen it. There is nothing to regret. Even if the choice was bad we have to move on forward and learn from our mistakes. If you can just fix your choice, but if there is no way to do this, just relax, next time you will make better decision. For sure this video changed something in my life. Now I understand the way people think about their choices and for example why do they regret purchase even if it was good.

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