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Buridanov donkey is a philosophical number (not experimental) paradox, according to which, if in front of a donkey on both sides decompose the same treats, then he will die of hunger, because will not be able to make the right choice.
But the French philosopher Jean Buridan, who lived at the beginning of the XIV century, was guided only by a “thought experiment” and conclusions. And so, 600 years later, scientists decided to test it all on practice. Numerous experiences with taster buyers showed that the richer a person’s choice, the more he becomes more indecisive in the final decision (what to prefer?), the more he feels dissatisfied with the purchase (again not bought it), but in the end it’s becoming more and more miserable.
According to the law of psychologist William Hick, the more choices, the more difficult it is for a person to make a decision, the more he spends on this time, psychological forces – and the more he gets disappointment as a result.
Nobel laureate Gerber Simon went even further determining that all people can be divided into maximizers and Satisfire. The first, by all means, want to choose from the available options are the best, and therefore never satisfied with their a choice. And the more and richer the choices before them, the more for them it’s more difficult to make the right decision, and therefore to stay satisfied. Hence all the suffering of the maximizers …
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Satisfirers have a completely different psychology when choosing the best of the many options, based only on their beliefs and established standards, they never doubt anything, and why don’t suffer. But the trouble is that most people on Earth – maximizers, but because the richer the choice provides we society, developing and becoming richer, the more we become unhappy because we constantly suffer from lost profits, lost opportunity, not caught crane in the sky …
The abundance that surrounds the people of Western today society, not only did not give them freedom of choice, but vice versa – completely deprived them of this freedom, turning into slaves of regret, anxiety, dissatisfaction and suffering, writes scientist.
In his work, The Paradox of Choice, American psychologist Barry Schwartz notes with surprise and regret: “Freedom of choice It seems the main component of our well-being, why, than more freedom and autonomy, the less we get from this psychological benefit? ”
It turns out that for the modern person the only way gaining true freedom and complete satisfaction in life is give up freedom of choice? Roman emperor and philosopher Mark Aurelius in his work “To Yourself” wrote that for a happy a person needs very little life – proper thinking, not wealth and certainly not unlimited possibilities. He probably knew this truth well, being an emperor and very smart man …
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