In Reality, Many Choices Are Between Things

What Leads Us Astray Is Confusing More Choices With More Control. Because It Is Not Clear That The More Choices You Have The More In Control You Feel. We Have More Choices Than We've Ever Had Before.

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.

When Japanese Went To Hawaii They Would Go Straight And Buy The Same Thing That They Would Buy In Japan. They Just Got It Cheaper, Which They Liked. And So They Would Still Eat The Red Bean Ice Cream Or The Green Tea Ice Cream, But They Didn't Really Take Advantage Of The Variety And It Wasn't Clear That They Cared.

One Could Even Argue That We Have A Duty To Create And Pass On Stories About Choice Because Once A Person Knows Such Stories, They Can't Be Taken Away From Him. He May Lose His Possessions, His Home, His Loved Ones, But If He Holds On To A Story About Choice, He Retains The Ability To Practice Choice.

Like, People Are Less Likely To Invest In Their Retirement When They Have More Options In Their 401k Plans Than When They Have Fewer.