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Quotes from The Paradox of Choice — Barry Schwartz

born 1946 United States

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Identity is much less a thing people "inherit" than it used to be.

The Paradox of Choice (2004)

Filtering out extraneous information is one of the basic functions of our consciousness.

The Paradox of Choice (2004)

[W]e now face a demand to make choices that is unparalleled in human history.

The Paradox of Choice (2004)

[W]hat is most important to us, most of the time, is not the objective results of a decision, but the subjective results.

The Paradox of Choice (2004)

[C]hoice in many facets of our life has gone from implicit and often psychologically unreal to explicit and psychologically very real.

The Paradox of Choice (2004)

[C]osmetic surgery is slowly shifting from being a procedure that people gossip about to being a commonplace tool for self-improvement.

The Paradox of Choice (2004)

Having too many choices produces psychological distress, especially when combined with regret, concern about status, adaptation, social comparison, and perhaps most important, the desire to have the best of everything—to maximize.

The Paradox of Choice (2004)

[W]e must decide which choices in our lives really matter and focus our time and energy there, letting many other opportunities pass us by.

The Paradox of Choice (2004)

[W]e should make an effort to limit how much we think about the attractive features of options we reject.

The Paradox of Choice (2004)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Barry Schwartz (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.