Tag: choices

Ketchup and Lettuce

You’re at my house for a barbecue.

Imagine I ask you if you like the flavor of ketchup and lettuce together.

If your answer is ‘Yes,’ you’d probably be disappointed if I used ketchup as your salad dressing.

If you answered ‘no,’ you might be disappointed if I didn’t put lettuce on your hamburger.

Context matters.

When people have simple black and white answers for complex problems it should signal a red flag to you.  Life is full of nuances and many answers are situational.

Don’t be afraid to get more context before making a decision.  Don’t be afraid to ask more questions.  It doesn’t make you weak or undecided.  It protects you from winding up with ketchup as your salad dressing.

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Combating Option Overload and Getting Back to Living

I’m often jealous of previous generations.  Not just because they got to eat bread without feeling guilty, but for the lack of options they enjoyed.  Don’t get me wrong, having no options isn’t fun, but having so many options your circuits get overloaded isn’t much fun either.

No matter what we’re doing, we have so many options that we can’t possibly try them all.  How do we know we’re choosing the right entertainment?  Blizzard flavor? Nigerian prince to send our money to? How do we know we’re not missing out?!

The fear of missing out makes having too many options stressful, rather than freeing, because we’re continually worried we’ll choose wrong.  From little decisions like What if I pick the wrong Netflix movie, to huge decisions like What if I pick the wrong Netflix series, we’re overloaded and stressed out with too many options at every turn in our lives. Continue reading “Combating Option Overload and Getting Back to Living”