Next steps

Read this: In his in-depth article in The New Yorker, ‘The art of decision-making’, Joshua Rothman explores the tendency of big decisions to make themselves. newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/21/the-art-ofdecision-making

Listen to this: Hidden Brain: The Choices Before Us, a podcast with psychologist Sheena Iyengar, focuses on making better decisions and the relationship between choice and control.

Watch this: It’s an oldie but a goodie: Psychologist Barry Schwartz’s 2005 Ted talk, ‘The paradox of choice’, on Youtube, unpacks the way the explosion of choice in the West can be immobilising. He suggests creating a metaphorical fishbowl of choice reduction to improve happiness and make decision-making easier.