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生活中选择太多，让我不知所措。于是我想出了一个好办法：让别人来帮我作选择。选炸面圈，挑衣服，……诸如此类的事情我都交给了陌生人去做。也许最后选出的东西并不是我想要的，但至少我不用再大伤脑筋唯恐选错了。 These days, there are so many choices to labor through, from the most basic, such as paper or plastic at the grocery checkout counter, to the nearly suicide-inducing, such as the friends-and-family plan or unlimited texting.[1] In these tough times, the abundance of life-changing decisions—finances, health care, career moves—can be overwhelming.[2] But don’t take it from me. Ask the guy who wrote the book The Psychology of Judgment and Decision Making. That would be Scott Plous, a psychology professor at Wesleyan University. “There’s no question that we have more choices than ever before,” Plous agreed. “And decisions are generally harder and more time-consuming when there are lots of alternatives.”[3] Even Steve Jobs, whose technology allows us the misery of 18,000 music selections in our pockets, has to counteract so many choices by wearing the same outfit—blue jeans, black turtleneck, New Balance sneakers—every single day of his life.[4] With every move you make, you’re bombarded with predicaments from the banal to the extraordinary,[5] and you obviously can’t trust yourself to make the right decisions anymore—look where that’s gotten you. | 
