More is worse

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The Flathead Valley, home to Glacier International Airport, has a lot of options for things to do.

Is having more choices worse than having fewer choices?

Depends.

Brainstorming is designed to give you the opportunity to think about as many potential solutions as possible. Why? because you can only pick from the ideas you generate.

Paradoxically, to scale a lifetime of personal decision making, too many choices makes deciding take longer. Too many choices also creates chronic decision fatigue.

Fifty types of mustard. Which do you pick while standing in the grocery store isle (or your Amazon webpage)?

Two types of mustard, which do you pick?

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By jeff noel

Retired Disney Institute Keynote Speaker and Prolific Blogger. Five daily, differently-themed personal blogs (about life's 5 big choices) on five interconnected sites.