re: A world with too many choices seems to be making people miserable.

gotta get miserable before you get right.

I love being miserable. The more miserable I am, the happier I am.

do you think they have an audio book option? Or the option where someone else reads it and briefly describes it to me?

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I like we can parlay our ideas together with this example.

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Y’all pretty much have this covered but I’ld like to add that politics, religion and healthcare have become enormous mobs that negatively affects individuals by design.

Carl Jung and the Spiritual Problem of the Modern Individual youtube

There's a very basic principle in child development that when they're 3 or 4 years old you start teaching them to make choices. You don't ask them what clothes they want to wear that day. You put two outfits on the bed and ask them to pick one. It's avoids overstimulating the brain causing them to have unwanted anxiety.

The same thing applies to us as adults. Too many choices is not good for anyone's mental health. Think about how you feel when you sit down at a restaurant and the menu has 1 side of good entrees as opposed to a 5 page menu full of mediocre entrees. At some point while paging through the 5 page menu your brain just says frick it and you either make a poor choice or you spend 20 minutes trying to choose something, get aggravated and order the cheeseburger. We're not made up like that.