How to make a choice? Notes from a psychologist

How to make a choice?

About why it can be so difficult for us to choose, and how we can help ourselves.

“Notes from a Psychologist” with Angelina Segal
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Good afternoon, dear listeners! Angelina Segal is with you.

Today we’ll talk about choice again. I’ll tell you a little about why it can be so difficult for us to choose, and how we can help ourselves.

When a person is faced with a choice, an uncomfortable feeling associated with responsibility may appear. After all, in fact, by choosing one thing, we give up something else. And even when we don’t realize it, we make choices every day.

For example, choosing to wear a business suit today, you automatically refused another outfit, the same jeans. But you know that tomorrow you can wear jeans, and then you will give up the suit. This kind of daily choice does not cause much tension, because you still have a suit and jeans, you do not lose them. The exception, perhaps, is people who are in neurosis. It may be difficult for them to choose even in such small things.

Now let’s imagine a more difficult choice. You need to choose a partner, or a job, a business. And then you realize that having chosen one, you will no longer be…