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Post by 40oz on Feb 1, 2018 8:42:37 GMT -5
alexisgrant.com/2011/12/01/when-too-many-choices-paralysis/I think it's always seemed like a good idea to have more options so you can customize your experience with anything any way you want. However I've had the lingering suspicion that too many choices actually makes things too complicated and annoying to use. This article goes into more depth about "the paradox of choice" and how being presented with too many options stalls people from making any choices at all. Apparently all the time it takes to weigh out our options is more annoying that we end up bailing out of doing things we might otherwise enjoy. I think this might be why I have zero interest in picking a channel to watch on TV, or why I hate grocery shopping. I wonder if this has an effect on people in ways that are doom related. Like people don't play Doom as often because there's so many different wads to pick from. Or people have trouble making maps because it's hard to find a theme or a style you like and just stick with it.
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Post by xeepeep on Feb 1, 2018 9:18:10 GMT -5
Well I don't know how does it affect your Dooming habits, but I know damn well how does it affect you when you're 16 and going to university in half a year, but don't know which exact one yet! Like ffs my parents even sent me to a professional orientation test, and I ended up being described as a frickin' genius (who would've thought hahaha) who could choose pretty much any career at all! Fancy.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2018 9:39:16 GMT -5
The fact is, EVERY little decision that you have to make puts some stress on you. This includes even extremely basic stuff like "do I want to eat this or that tomato first?". And there are only so many choices you can make per day\week without wearing yourself out. So it might be a good idea to develop some rules that you could just follow without thinking. For example, instead of wondering what to wear you can always just pick the shirt on the left or something. Simple stuff like that can help relax.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2018 4:44:08 GMT -5
I genuinely believe that having been told throughout my formative years that "you can be anything you want to be" and "if you put your mind to it, you can achieve anything" has left me in the position of not really wanting to do anything at all (mostly career-wise). Any one thing I do might be missing out on something else and the concern is that because I can achieve anything, failure is just other people thinking I didn't try hard enough.
From a more Doom perspective, I would agree that there's so much out there now that there's absolutely no incentive to try and see even just all of the highlights.
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Post by 40oz on Feb 7, 2018 9:03:29 GMT -5
I do wonder how I got the career I did, considering that I'm a pretty creative person who enjoys writing, drawing, and creating simulations. What I do for a paycheck has nothing to do with what I actually enjoy doing or am actually any good at.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2018 4:22:46 GMT -5
I suspect we all get a bit of that "imposter syndrome" sensation when we realise how little we do to earn a living. I've extrapolated that sensation outwards and decided the whole fucking Western society is now just a pointless treadmill of getting people to do pointless shit to "earn a living" because we've inherited a system that no longer fits and can't just accept universal provision whilst there's the selfish drive to do better than others. The worst part for me is that it's very clearly dragging people down as we struggle with the lifestyle we've all been born into (mental health, etc.). Nobody needs to be in poverty anymore, if we just use the resources and technology we have to automate the provision of the basics and free people of the yoke of meaningless income (either with a universal basic income or the abolition of money, as a couple of half-baked example) so that we can do what we're interested in... Thus leaving people to enjoy life and pursue the ideas they have to create or advance. Kind of like if we all got to be Elon Musk. How that would all actually work is beyond me, as with finite resources on this planet not everybody can have tons of metal and plastic to build stuff with. I just know things can be less shit, you know? Maybe this is the kind of idealism that theorises communism before some arsehole imposes a dictatorship on the ideal.
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Post by agent6 on Feb 9, 2018 9:06:23 GMT -5
I do wonder how I got the career I did, considering that I'm a pretty creative person who enjoys writing, drawing, and creating simulations. What I do for a paycheck has nothing to do with what I actually enjoy doing or am actually any good at. Not a very creative person myself lately, I used to have a much more active imagination but it slowly started dying for some reason. Can't come up with something as original as I could some years ago. Regardless of this, I can relate to something you said, that being aiming for other careers that may not even fit us in the first place just to earn a decent living and not get buried in taxes every month. For instance I studied philology in high school and am currently a student in the second year at engineering, so you can easily something doesn't click here and the 2 don't exactly mix well, but what could I do since anything that gets my interest will probably not generate a solid income... probably one of the reasons why I felt so directionless recently. I don't know, so many opportunities on one hand these days, and yet on the other so few choices... Society no longer fulfills our real needs these days either...
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