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People Will Make Worse Financial Decisions For Them If They're Choosing From A Lot Of Options Than If They're Choosing From A Few Options. If They Have More Options They're More Likely To Avoid Stocks And Put All Their Money In Money Market Accounts, Which Doesn't Even Grow At The Rate Of Inflation.

The Typical American Reports Making About 70 [choices] In A Typical Day.

A Chess Master Can Keep Track Of More Choices Than The Number Of Stars In The Galaxy Within An Instant, But These Are People That Have Truly Learned And Mastered The Choices That They Have And How To Deal With Those Choices Over A Very, Very Long Period Of Training, So Essentially What They're Really Doing Is Ruling Out All The Irrelevant Choices And Only Zeroing In On The Most Relevant, Useful Choices At The Moment.

Also If They Choose From More Options Than Fewer Options They're Less Satisfied With What They Choose And That Is True Whether They're Choosing Chocolates Or Which Job Offer To Accept.

Choice Is More Than Picking 'x' Over 'y.' It Is A Responsibility To Separate The Meaningful And The Uplifting From The Trivial And The Disheartening. It Is The Only Tool We Have That Enables Us To Go From Who We Are Today To Who We Want To Be Tomorrow.