Less choice is better for us
This story has been picked up all over the place. Barry Schwartz's arguments about how too much choice makes us unhappy are just general enough that they can be applied to every area of our lives. I'm always sceptical about such general arguments, especially when they tend to lump everyone into two groups: the 'satisficer' and the 'maximiser'. Perhaps that's just the media spin though, I haven't read his book.
Here are a couple of the stories:
Making Habits, Breaking Habits
In his new book, Jeremy Dean--psychologist and author of PsyBlog--looks at how habits work, why they are so hard to change, and how to break bad old cycles and develop new healthy, creative, happy habits.
→ "Making Habits, Breaking Habits", is available now on Amazon.
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