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The Paradox of Choice - Why More is Less

Barry Schwartz

Recommended by 2 people on the record.

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Jonathan Haidt recommends it
That work was done especially by Barry Schwartz, in his book The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less. That is just such a good book...if I'd had six books, I would have included that one.

on fivebooks.com · 27 Jul 2010

Derek Sivers liked it
Faced with many options or decisions in your life? This will change the way you look at them. We feel worse when we have too many options.

on sive.rs · 11 Jul 2007

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.