I recently read a April 2004 Scientific American article called The
Tyranny of Choice by Barry Schwartz. I first learned of his research
from a reference in Authentic Happiness by Martin Seligman.
In a nutshell, not having choice leads to disappointment but having
many choices and "choosing wrong" leads to regret. Apparently regret
is a greater detriment to happiness than disappointment.
Lessons from the article are:
- Choose when to choose
- Learn to accept "good enough"
- Don't worry about what you're missing
- Control expectations
So, triggered by the talk about Optional Scope contracts, I'm
wondering if I or others have observed the "tyranny of choice"
phenomenon manifested as resistance to introducing a more flexible
scope approach.
Don't know where I'm going with this yet... probably need to do more
observations and reflect a bit more first...
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