How to make a choice when the options suck | Amitai Shenhav

[Music] Centuries ago, a French philosopher posed the following hypothetical. He said, "If I could get a donkey exactly between two equally sized bales of hay, would that donkey starve to death from indecision?" There is thankfully no evidence of this ever happening. But one of the reasons I think this example endures is that we have little trouble empathizing with that poor donkey when we're faced with choices about everything from job offers to ice cream flavors.In fact, when you start to catalog the most ...