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    9/22/2009

    About something like Starbucks

    "The whole purpose of places like Starbucks is for people with no decision-making ability whatsoever to make six decisions just to buy one cup of coffee. Short, tall, light, dark, caf, decaf, low-fat, non-fat, etc. So people who don’t know what the hell they’re doing or who on earth they are, can, for only $2.95, get not just a cup of coffee but an absolutely defining sense of self: Tall! Decaf! Cappuccino!"

    Quotes from "You've Got Mail" Joe Fox (by Tom Hanks)

    實際上六种咖啡在口感上不存在令人驚喜的本質差別,選擇其中任何一種口味也未必表示那一款就真是你的心頭好。
    (有80后朋友說,我們不知道自己真正喜歡什麽,與其浪費時間去思考,不如從自己不討厭的那一堆裏選一個。這是最有效率的解決之道。)
    同時面對"有選擇"和"沒選擇"兩种情況,受惰性的驅使,大多數人屈服于有選擇的一方,因爲那樣會很有效率的滿足需求,達到目的。這也可以視作是做人的一種妥協。


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    Ciciwrote:
    xiaogai, what you meant is the situation of only one choice versus that of multiple choices.
    But I'm thinking the case of no choice or the case of choosing no choice from the existing options to make one's own decision.
    Sept. 23
    Jun Tongwrote:
    商家真精明。
    Sept. 23
    xiaogai tangwrote:
    也许没得选择的生活更简单
    Sept. 23
    Sunnie SUNwrote:
    广东话中有一句“有的拣,先至是老板”。
    其实再看真点,更多的时候,我们是在别人给定的挑选范围内,产生能够自主挑选的假象。
    Sept. 22

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