B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes
What has spread all over the world is not yoga. It is not even non-yoga; it is un-yoga.
Also if they choose from more options than fewer options they're less satisfied with what they choose and that is true whether they're choosing chocolates or which job offer to accept.
So most of the time when we are confronted by more, rather than a few, choices we're often novices and so we don't really know how to differentiate these various options.
I mean it wasn't that they sat around thinking oh gosh I needed more choices in my grocery stores the way I had come to think about it as an American growing up.
What you see determines how you interpret the world, which in turn influences what you expect of the world and how you expect the story of your life to unfold.
We're born with the desire, but we don't really know how to choose. We don't know what our taste is, and we don't know what we are seeing.
Too many choices can overwhelm us and cause us to not choose at all. For businesses, this means that if they offer us too many choices, we may not buy anything.
You know, whether it be humans or animals. So even humans - before we can speak or we can understand a baby's cognition - they're already showing us signs that they want choice.
Now to what...? How we teach people to make choices and the things they're going to make choices over - that is culturally learned.
Knowledge should be a public good, and I want my ideas to have as much exposure as possible.
When companies try to guess what consumers want, they essentially make the choice for consumers.
The phantasmagoria, the actual experience that we try to understand and organize through narrative, varies from place to place. No single narrative serves the needs of everyone everywhere.
A person of “good character” was one who acted in accordance with the expectations of his community
We are sculptors finding ourselves in the evolution of choosing, not in the results of choice.
A clear right answer and the opportunity to change the options? This is the chooser’s dream.
So it was constantly going back and forth between these two cultures that kept raising the question, well, how important is personal freedom? And I think that has always been of interest to me.
When I was in Russia I found that I thought I was going to give these people that I was interviewing a whole bunch of choice in terms of what they could drink while we were chatting.
I didn't really give them anymore than one choice, soda or no soda. They didn't... whereas we put a lot of stock in the differences between soda.
There is a different attitude about, you know, how much differentiation there needs to be between our options and how many choices do I need to have in order to make a choice.
I do think that there are cultural differences in the extent to which we value having more and more choice.
Once the jazz musician learns all the fundamentals they can keep track of a lot of choices in an instant.
Like, people are less likely to invest in their retirement when they have more options in their 401K plans than when they have fewer.
If you truly have expertise - and expertise can be say a chess master who has really mastered something or an artist or a musician of some sort you know if you give a jazz musician.
We either put out 6 different flavors of jam or 24 different flavors of jam and we looked at 2 things. First, in what case were people more likely to buy a jar of jam?
You know give me choices that are truly different from one another, otherwise they don't regard them as meaningful choices.
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