I’m driving my three-year-old daughter, Penny, to preschool. She asks me a question, but I’m distracted. I’m pondering whether I should try something new at my local café after I drop her off, or stick with my go-to soy latte.
Then, I think about the conversation my husband and I had the night before about whether to send our kids to private or public school. “Can we have Mummy-Penny time when you pick me up from school?” she repeats, a reference to the special time we sometimes spend together without her little sister. If I hadn’t been so preoccupied, I could have heard her sweet request the first time around.
People who make “good enough” decisions, instead of “perfect” ones, are often happier. Credit: iStock Each day, we are inundated with choices. Some are small – like our morning coffee order – while others are big, such as where to send our children to school.
With an abundance of options and information at our fingertips today, it would make sense that the best decisions come from thorough, detailed analysis, right? Wrong. Decades’ worth of psychological research suggests the opposite. In fact, people who make “good enough” decisions, instead of “perfect” ones, are often happier.
Loading It has been estimated that adults make thousands of choices a day. In a world of near-endless options and information, it’s clear that humans don’t have the time or cognitive resources to make a perfect decision in every case. “The human mind j.
