Did You Choose This Life, or Did It Just Happen?

The paralysis you feel at 10:10 PM, scrolling through streaming options for eleven minutes before giving up, isn't about too many choices. A fifty-study meta-analysis demolishes the famous jam experiment: option overload only strikes when your criteria are unclear. Steven Levitt's coin-flip study of twenty thousand decisions reveals something sharper: people systematically overestimate the cost of change and treat the status quo as free. Those who flipped "change" were happier at six months, not because coins are wise, but because action beats rumination.

You'll learn:

- Why reversibility should determine your decision timeline

- How the reduce-to-three test exposes wishes disguised as values

- Which four regret categories predict your future remorse