Agonizing over whether your love is “the real thing” or your sexual relationship above or below par, and wondering whether you could have done better is a prescription for misery. Knowing that you’ve made a decision choice that you will not reverse allows you to pour your energy into improving the relationship that you have rather than constantly second-guessing it.
~ Barry Schwartz

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Much of human progress has involved reducing the time and energy and the number of processes to obtain the necessities of life. In the past few decades however, that long process of simplifying and bundling economic offerings has been reversed. Increasingly, the trend has moved back toward time-consuming foraging behavior.
~ Barry Schwartz

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