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The Paradox of Choice Leads to Choice Paralysis
Two-hundred and twenty draft ideas and f*ck all to write about. That doesn’t even make sense?
There are so many options yet it seems impossible to choose one.
Is this a good problem to have? — it doesn’t feel great. In fact, it feels like there is something wrong.
Surely having these many choices should be a good thing, right? An abundance of options to choose from.
Turns out it’s more of a hindrance than a help.
“Are you brave enough to do it? Have you got the balls?”
Staring at the screen of my laptop, its glow burning into my retinas as I scroll aimlessly up and down the list of potential writing ideas and all I can think is;
“What’s the point of having such a long list of ideas if none of them sparks my interest and intrigues me to write? Maybe I should just delete the whole damn lot?”
The same thing happens at restaurants — though, the option to delete the menu isn’t available— there’s too much choice.
I end up spending thirty minutes reading, then re-reading the menu, in a vicious daydream as if stuck in Groundhog Day, only to order the steak as per usual — rare of…
