Barry Schwartz's The Paradox Of Choice

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“Every day when you wake up in the morning you have to decide the person you want to be,” as said by Barry Schwartz who offered this thought in his segment of the Paradox of Choice. In this Ted Talk he discussed how we viewed the world both now and how things use to be based on the choices we make. He brought the topic to mind how paradoxically all choices have two negative effects on people. One effect being that there is a type of paralysis on people rather than liberation. This means that making a decision is so hard, that people will pass up the opportunity of a life time which can be almost debilitating to one’s mind. The paralysis is the consequence of having too many choices which he showed in a picture where a guy who is sent to Hell
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