Did I Make The Wrong Choice

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Published 2022-09-06

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  • @aufrechtgehn1
    I believe the phenomenom of Over Choice was one of the reasons why German brothers Albrecht invented ALDI, the world's first discount grocery, in 1974, and why it was (and still is) such a phenomenal worldwide success. Because having a choice of 50 different brands and sorts of, let's say, marmelade, doesn't really make you happy, it just gives you so much stress that you end up buying Nutella again instead because you simply couldn't decide. I still remember when I went to California for the first time and visited my first American grocery store: after just 20 minutes, the sheer amount of choices there felt so overwhelming that I had to leave the store, fearing that my brain would explode. ALDI just gives you one or two choices: either you take it or leave it. What a relief.
  • @flybywire5866
    Decades ago i saw a sketch from a german comedian, Dieter Hallervorden. He was the waiter, and a customer asked him for a coffee. The waiter asked, with or without sugar? Oh, uh, with sugar. Condensed milk or pasteurized milk or fresh milk? .. and so on more and more options until the customer lost it and asked for a coffee now. To which the waiter asked...whatever options there were. Then i did not connect this to the concept of overchoice, but watching this video it looks like this was what the comedian was making a caricature of.
    Its true, the more options you have, the more you will doubt your decision later, and the harder making a decision will be. There are people who get so scared of choosing the wrong one out of a mass of options that they wont make any decision at all.
  • @HerbertLandei
    Knowing about over choice was incredible helpful for me. I can tell myself: "Hey, you researched like 10% of the possible options, stop, that's enough. You can't look through all, and even if you could, it won't help much. But even so you will very likely get one of the best options anyway". Framing it that way helps to avoid regret. That, and acknowledging that having choices at all is a huge privilege.
  • @tanja5292
    Zu viele Bäckereien? Das jibbet nicht. 🤣
  • @kateruch7196
    Exactly how I feel shopping on Amazon, especially when I get deep into the reviews. Not to mention the guilt I feel when I think I should just go to a "real store".
  • @TS29er
    1:21 Can't be a coincidence that the ad on the bus says: "Only when you try it out you will know if it's not for you."
  • @omniphage9391
    your "bidde" when ordering the coffe was on point, impressed
  • @mojojim6458
    Often when I watch a video by The Nalf, certain images linger in my subconscious. They’re like unexplored secrets that keep drawing me back to ponder them again and again. I instinctively know they’re significant, but my slow mind simply can’t figure out why. One such image is his use of the waterfowl. Just last night a solution drifted up from my dreams. Ducks are water birds, creatures of lakes and streams. In their natural environment they are graceful and sure. But quite often The Nalf shows them on land, out of their element. In that setting they are a bit awkward and hesitant.
    Now, I can understand why The Nalf uses images of them so frequently. They represent a person taken from his natural surroundings and challenged to learn his way in a new one.
    TSGO
  • @slidenapps
    There is no choice. You already know what you're going to do.
  • @renieb1986
    The 100k-milestone is getting closer and closer...
  • @silkmaze
    Some 35 years ago (pre-internet), I stumbled on to a poem by Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken. I read, re-read it, and have read it at least 6-7 times a year, since then. It helped me then and still helps me today, whenever I have to make a choice, or if I don't know what choice to make. I have shared this poem with many people, but here I'll just give the last three lines:

    Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
    I took the one less traveled by,
    And that has made all the difference.

    I always narrow down my choices down, to, surprise, surprise, two. The last line, is the one that puts everything into perspective for me, and gets me looking forward to the coming days and weeks.
  • @Mayagick
    You can't have a cake and eat it, but you can have 2 Butterbrezeln at once.
  • @imacastle
    This video is helping me with my own indecision. Now I'm filling out some forms and updating my resume. Gotta make some decisions!
  • @companyjoe
    Wow, The Dice Man just opened up to me in a new light.
  • @nomirrors3552
    Choice paralysis.... I knew about it. But regret, that's even more pernicious.
  • @huawafabe
    I chose to quit my job and start something totally different. I know that phenomenon quite well.
  • @WinByTKo
    The life graphic really clarifies Neil Peart’s quote, “If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.”
  • @jolotschka
    Even the most disputable decisions in live gives you the pleasure of interesting experience you would never had without.
  • @kaipeterson
    Maaaan, you should get sponsorship from the Schwäbisch Hall tourist bureau
  • @MarcLucksch
    I never had this problem, I just make a choice by feeling and don’t look back on things I can’t change anymore anyway.