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The hardness of choice

Having options to choose from is a good thing. But having too many options might get you in trouble.

It's easy to fall into analysis paralysis trying to figure out the best possible option from all the available ones. It wouldn't be nice to pick the wrong one and then regret it.

Honestly speaking all those options aren't usually that different after all. The differences might be small and meaningless in the end. But if those are the only ones distinguishing the options they suddenly become a lot more important.

Trying to go through all those small details and optimize the outcome is utter waste of time. If there is a feature in an option that you didn't choose you probably wont be missing it afterwards. You probably don't even remember it existed in the first place.

Wasting time figuring out all this the decision doesn't become any easier. While you were comparing all those options there has been a handful of new ones appearing. And now you need to start this all over again, including those new options and weighting in all those new features.

So best thing to do is to break this loop as soon as possible. Make the decision and just be prepared to regret it afterwards. I'm pretty sure you won't.