I Think Of Choosing As A... Both

I Mean We Know That Some Choice Makes You Better Off Than No Choice. Now Do We Get Better Off If We Go From A Lot Of Choice Versus A Few Choices? And There I Think The Answer Is Much, Much, Much More Complicated.

As We Get Older, We Get Better At Choosing In Ways That Will Make Us Happy. We Do A Better Job At Picking Activities That Make Us Happy, And At Spending Time With People Who Make Us Happy. We're Also Better At Letting Things Go.

In America We Tell Our Parents To Bring Their Child Home And Put Him Or Her In A Crib; As They Get Older, Children Sleep In They Own Room Not In Mom And Dad's Room. What Are We Training Them For? It's Independence, Because That's What Being Empowered Is All About.

You Know Give Me Choices That Are Truly Different From One Another, Otherwise They Don't Regard Them As Meaningful Choices.

People Were Actually 6 Times More Likely To Buy A Jar Of Jam If They Had Encountered 6 Than If They Encountered 24, So What We Learned From This Study Was That While People Were More Attracted To Having More Options, That's What Sort Of Got Them In The Door Or Got Them To Think About Jam, When It Came To Choosing Time They Were Actually Less Likely To Make A Choice If They Had More To Choose From Than If They Had Fewer To Choose From.