Doing Bette But Feelings Worse The Paradox Of Choice Summary

Barry Schwartz and Andrew Ward in their chapter excerpt "Doing Bette but Feeling Worse: The Paradox of Choice" are explaining how expansion of choices in different areas of our life can lead to less happiness. In our modern society we're value our freedom and autonomy more than anything else; it gives us a strong assurance of well-being and satisfaction in our lives. Freedom means to have a choice, which, as we think, is obviously good thing. But the excess of choices can lead to significant disappointment. In order to live prosperous life we are in need of some sort of constraints. It's very important to have a choice in every aspect of our lives; it means that through choices we're managing our futures, and "..telling the world who we are and what we think". But when you have too many choices, you're starting to feel the overwhelming effect of these choices; you're not free anymore. There are two different trends of expansion of choice. One, in areas of life where choice always had been, and expanded significantly. And, another, in those areas where we almost didn't have a choice, and have some of them now. At present time we're choosing how to love,
For example, in comparing with the old times when people didn't have many choices in education, we have so many opportunities now. It looks like that we should be happy by having such a huge amount of varieties and ways to choose from in order to live the life we want. But still not everyone could have such an abundant and prosperous life, and many people could be disappointed by their well-being lives just because they know that there is something better, which they can't reach. So, if this is the aspect we're looking from, then we certainly can say that too many choices are leading to less