Less Choices Means More Freedom

When every option is available to us, we don’t actually have freedom; we tend to shut down. I experienced what sociologists call choice overload (or paralysis) and decision fatigue. If you’ve ever tried to pick out a paint color for a wall, stood in your closet full of clothes with “nothing to wear,” or found yourself trying to find the right word at the end of the day but your head is muddled from the thousands of decisions you’ve already sifted through, you know this doesn’t feel like freedom. 

Like too many condiments to choose from, we don’t need more choices to live the good…