20 Paradoxes About Life
3. The more you try to impress people, the less impressed they’ll be. Nobody likes a try-hard.
4. The more you fail, the more likely you are to succeed. Insert
inspirational famous person quote here. You’ve probably heard many of
them. Edison tried over 10,000 prototypes before getting the lightbulb
right. Michael Jordan got cut from his high school team. Success comes
from improvement and improvement comes from failure. There’s no shortcut
around it.
12. The more available something is, the less you will want it. Humans
have a strong scarcity bias. We unconsciously assume things that are
scarce are valuable and things that are abundant are not. This is not
the case.
14. The more honest you are about your faults, the more people will think you’re perfect. The
amazing thing about vulnerability is the more comfortable you are about
not being that great, the more people will think you are.
17. The more choices you have, the less satisfied you are with each one. The old “paradox of choice.” Research shows that when we’re presented with more options, we become less satisfied
with any particular one we go with. The theory is that when we have so
many options, we have greater opportunity costs to selecting each
particular one; therefore, we’re less happy with our decision.
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