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When our oldest grandchild was five-ish, my wife went with her to the supermarket to buy a toothbrush, and she got to the toothbrush section of the aisle, and there were a hundred and fifty or so. And she stood there, my five-year-old granddaughter, and was just completely overwhelmed and paralyzed, and finally said, "Grandma, would you pick?"
Does this sound familiar? Maybe for you it wasn't toothbrushes, but what couch to buy or what doctor to see. Social psychologist Barry Schwartz, an emeritus professor at Swarthmore, has spent decades challenging the idea that more choice is always better.
It makes making decisions harder, it makes making good decisions harder, and it ends up making you less satisfied even when you manage to make a good decision because you know somewhere out there is something that is even better. [upbeat music]
On today's show, finding satisfaction in a world full of endless choice. I'm Maya Shankar, and this is A Slight Change of Plans, a show about who we are and who we become in the face of a big change. [upbeat music] Barry
Episode notes
Social Psychologist Barry Schwartz is an expert on decision making. His new book, (00:01:48) “Choose Wisely,” explores how the very tools we rely on to make “good” decisions can steer us wrong — and why endless options may be making us less satisfied, not more. In today’s episode, Maya sits down with Barry to unpack why choosing can feel so exhausting, the hidden costs of always trying to find the “best,” and what the rest of us can learn from people who are content with “good enough.”
And in case you missed it—Maya’s new book, (00:27:35) “The Other Side of Change,” is officially a bestseller! Order your copy at changewithmaya.com/book, or wherever you like to buy books.
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