12-07-2019, 09:19 AM | #31 | |
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That said, I've read that people are supposed to be happier when there are fewer choices. Personally I've never understood that. Perhaps having to constantly pick and choose is stressful for some people, but I enjoy it. |
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12-07-2019, 10:16 AM | #32 |
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I've always rebelled at that notion, but it has some validity and has been studied. The problem comes from too many items that are difficult to tell apart and apprehension that there is a bad choice that needs to be detected and avoided.
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12-07-2019, 11:30 AM | #33 | |
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It certainly isn't a method I'd recommend to most people, but it has improved my reading satisfaction at least 50% since I started doing it this way back in '16 or so. |
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12-07-2019, 12:02 PM | #34 | |
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12-07-2019, 01:02 PM | #35 |
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It is well known, in the retail jewelry business, that giving the customer to many choices tends to confuse them and they have a harder time making a choice.
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12-07-2019, 01:46 PM | #36 |
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Sounds true to me. It took me several months to figure out the optimum number of series to cycle through. It wasn't even until the next year that I realized it wasn't necessarily the number but the time between each return. 2 months between a series works great for me. Now that my reading time has dropped I'm keeping less series on the kindle but still keeping that 2 month cycle.
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I've read that you have give a small child at the most a choice between two things - "so little Jimmy, so you want a hamburger or chicken nuggets" rather than "so little Jimmy, what do you want".
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12-07-2019, 06:57 PM | #39 |
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On the rare occasion where I don't feel like reading I *SHOCK* do something else for a while!
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12-07-2019, 09:33 PM | #40 |
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Yep. Though I understand the pressure folks put on themselves to read. I used to do the same. Somehow I've gotten over it. (Although I still feel an unreasonable tinge of "guilt" sometimes when I'm not reading.)
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12-07-2019, 10:54 PM | #41 |
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Reading, other than perhaps required reading at University has never seemed unattractive or a chore to me. I'd have a harder time fielding the antithetical question - how do you put a good book down so that other obligations don't get pushed aside?
If "readers block" crosses my path, like others I start with a bit of a favourite author or an "easy" read then move on to Nabokov or what have you. |
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Small child? I have one friend who can spend an hour studying the menu at a restaurant (I'm talking a menu with maybe 20 choices). This includes asking everyone at the table about every menu item, consulting the waitperson, etc. The one time we went with her to a prix fixe dinner, she managed to make a production of ordering leaving several members of the Hart House staff rather bewildered (how hard can it be to order the one and only multi-course meal of the day?).
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Sounds like a self-limiting problem. Order like that and your friends won't shouldn't invite you to dinner again. Whereas it would be frowned upon to starve little children who do the same.
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