In America, people are faced with more and more decisions every day, ____1____ it’s pick-ing one of thirty-one ice cream ____2____, or deciding whether and when to get married. That sounds like a ____3____ thing, but as a recent study has shown, too many choices can make us confused, even paralyzed ____4____ indecision. “That’s particularly true ____5____ it comes to the work place,” says Barry Schwartz, an author of six books about human behavior. Students____6____ with a variety of skills and interests, but often ? nd themselves ____7____ when they are to choose an ultimate career ____8____ . In a study, Schwartz observed decision-making among college students ____9____ their senior year.

Based on answers to questions ____10____ their job hunting strategies and career decisions, he divided the students into two groups: maximizers, who ____11____ every possible option, and satisficers, who look until they find an option that is good enough. You might ____ 12____ that the student who had undertaken the most ____13____ search would be the most satis? ed with their ? nal decision, but it ____14____ that’s not true. Schwartz found that while maximizers ended up ____15____ better-paying jobs than satisficers on ____16____, they weren’t ____17____ happy with their decision.

The reason why these people feel less satis? ed is that a world of possibilities may also be a world of ____18____ opportunities. When you look at every possible option, you ____19____ to focus more on what was given up than what was gained. After surveying every option, a person is more acutely ____20____ of the opportunities they had to turn down to pursue just one career.

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