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КОМЕНТАРІ • 382

  • @aufrechtgehn1
    @aufrechtgehn1 Рік тому +181

    I believe the phenomenom of Over Choice was one of the reasons why German brothers Albrecht invented ALDI, the world's first discount grocery, in 1974, and why it was (and still is) such a phenomenal worldwide success. Because having a choice of 50 different brands and sorts of, let's say, marmelade, doesn't really make you happy, it just gives you so much stress that you end up buying Nutella again instead because you simply couldn't decide. I still remember when I went to California for the first time and visited my first American grocery store: after just 20 minutes, the sheer amount of choices there felt so overwhelming that I had to leave the store, fearing that my brain would explode. ALDI just gives you one or two choices: either you take it or leave it. What a relief.

    • @NALFVLOGS
      @NALFVLOGS  Рік тому +35

      That is fascinating, thanks for sharing!

    • @rockshot100
      @rockshot100 Рік тому +12

      Great example. On top of that, you have to pay a LOT extra for all those choices, nope, I will stick with Aldi.

    • @enerpro2955
      @enerpro2955 Рік тому +1

      it might seem overwhelming but in reality it actually isn't. As a European living in CA, I frequent 6 supermarkets to get the stuff I like

    • @Frosty1979
      @Frosty1979 Рік тому +3

      Aldi was founded way earlier than 1974.^^

    • @maidenekker
      @maidenekker Рік тому +5

      I can totally relate to that! I have been travelling for a year in Asia (way back), where i would be happy when i found toothpaste or soap, or something else i needed in the small shops available. When i got back to the Netherlands i got so overwhelmed with the amount of choices that i ran out of the supermarket without any food. It took some months to get adjusted again.

  • @tanja5292
    @tanja5292 Рік тому +5

    Zu viele Bäckereien? Das jibbet nicht. 🤣

  • @flybywire5866
    @flybywire5866 Рік тому +31

    Decades ago i saw a sketch from a german comedian, Dieter Hallervorden. He was the waiter, and a customer asked him for a coffee. The waiter asked, with or without sugar? Oh, uh, with sugar. Condensed milk or pasteurized milk or fresh milk? .. and so on more and more options until the customer lost it and asked for a coffee now. To which the waiter asked...whatever options there were. Then i did not connect this to the concept of overchoice, but watching this video it looks like this was what the comedian was making a caricature of.
    Its true, the more options you have, the more you will doubt your decision later, and the harder making a decision will be. There are people who get so scared of choosing the wrong one out of a mass of options that they wont make any decision at all.

    • @erraldstyler
      @erraldstyler Рік тому +1

      Thats why i stay away from Subway. I literally fear odering at Subway...

    • @flybywire5866
      @flybywire5866 Рік тому

      @@erraldstyler Yes, my daughter just told me that. They have too many options to choose from😄

  • @HerbertLandei
    @HerbertLandei Рік тому +19

    Knowing about over choice was incredible helpful for me. I can tell myself: "Hey, you researched like 10% of the possible options, stop, that's enough. You can't look through all, and even if you could, it won't help much. But even so you will very likely get one of the best options anyway". Framing it that way helps to avoid regret. That, and acknowledging that *having choices at all* is a huge privilege.

  • @kateruch7196
    @kateruch7196 Рік тому +11

    Exactly how I feel shopping on Amazon, especially when I get deep into the reviews. Not to mention the guilt I feel when I think I should just go to a "real store".

  • @mojojim6458
    @mojojim6458 Рік тому +12

    Often when I watch a video by The Nalf, certain images linger in my subconscious. They’re like unexplored secrets that keep drawing me back to ponder them again and again. I instinctively know they’re significant, but my slow mind simply can’t figure out why. One such image is his use of the waterfowl. Just last night a solution drifted up from my dreams. Ducks are water birds, creatures of lakes and streams. In their natural environment they are graceful and sure. But quite often The Nalf shows them on land, out of their element. In that setting they are a bit awkward and hesitant.
    Now, I can understand why The Nalf uses images of them so frequently. They represent a person taken from his natural surroundings and challenged to learn his way in a new one.
    TSGO

  • @lorrainemoynehan6791
    @lorrainemoynehan6791 Рік тому +3

    How right you are
    I remember the first time I visited the states and was overwhelmed with trivial choices. I saw the cereal aisle and lost the will to live - yes a whole aisle devoted to breakfast cereals, and at a very young age I wondered that a country could haves so much choice of cereal yet only two choices for government which, to my young and untrained eye, were hardly distinguishable
    And that I think is the key. In Italy if you ask far a coffee you are given an excellent espresso unless you ask for another option (with milk). In Starbucks the permutations are infinite, but basically unsatisfactory
    We are given trivial choices yet for most of us it is an illusion of choice over the bigger option which we may have little or no control
    p.s 5 bakeries is fine. They probably all sell pretty much the same thing to the same quality

  • @silkmaze
    @silkmaze Рік тому +3

    Some 35 years ago (pre-internet), I stumbled on to a poem by Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken. I read, re-read it, and have read it at least 6-7 times a year, since then. It helped me then and still helps me today, whenever I have to make a choice, or if I don't know what choice to make. I have shared this poem with many people, but here I'll just give the last three lines:
    Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
    I took the one less traveled by,
    And that has made all the difference.
    I always narrow down my choices down, to, surprise, surprise, two. The last line, is the one that puts everything into perspective for me, and gets me looking forward to the coming days and weeks.

  • @bellilly
    @bellilly Рік тому +1

    love this.
    also, i really enjoyed unicorn town - it is beautifully and poignantly put together.

  • @TS29er
    @TS29er Рік тому +1

    1:21 Can't be a coincidence that the ad on the bus says: "Only when you try it out you will know if it's not for you."

  • @knownothing5518
    @knownothing5518 Рік тому +8

    Every breath we take could influence a change and a different "path" so I don't really think about it. The paths don't really get chosen from waypoint to waypoint, but are a continuous flow in which you can navigate like a river, tides and waves pushing and pulling at you in the process. Stay afloat and try swimming up if you get dunked under, enjoy the swim wherever possible and you'll be doing everything you can for a happy life.

  • @TheHornoxx
    @TheHornoxx Рік тому

    ...you are thus gradually developing into a wise phylosopher! 🤣🤣 nice video

  • @imacastle
    @imacastle Рік тому +1

    This video is helping me with my own indecision. Now I'm filling out some forms and updating my resume. Gotta make some decisions!

  • @alexjones1973club
    @alexjones1973club Рік тому +5

    What a interesting point! Frankly in most of people’s mind more options is make sense, but when we need to make a actual choice, and when we just base on some logic, the good and bad make us actually very hard to make a “right” decision even on our own opinion! Very interesting point! Love it actually!

  • @Phiyedough
    @Phiyedough Рік тому +8

    Back in the 1960s there were assisted passage deals to encourage Brits to emigrate to Australia or New Zealand. My parents considered New Zealand but rejected the idea due to family ties. I have often wondered what our lives would have been like if we had relocated there.

    • @Canleaf08
      @Canleaf08 Рік тому

      Same with us and the US. We liked the country, we considered moving there. But it felt hard to give up Germany. By coincidence I wanted to migrate to Canada in my 20s. I went as a work and traveler with 28 to Toronto and faced even less choices by profession. Then I got a better job in Montreal. Where I stayed for six months. I faced even less choices. Everything was harder. So I had to moved back to Germany. A new world opened up for me professionally. I became a software engineer in Germany. Before that it was hard to gain attention from employers and I stowed at Amazon.

    • @lorrainemoynehan6791
      @lorrainemoynehan6791 Рік тому

      that I think is a sliding doors thing. I had the same experience. My dad gone a job is cairns. We had a house there, and my brother and I place at a school. Two days before departing my mother said she couldn't leave her family. We never went. I have often wondered who Would have been. But I think this is a slightly different subject to the tyranny of choice when all the option are trivial ie a whole aisle of breakfast cereal when maybe 6 - 10 is as much as we need

  • @lysan1445
    @lysan1445 Рік тому +1

    I love your videos. I came across a saying yesterday that may fit you: "Always be yourself. Unless you can be a Unicorn. Then be a Unicorn."

  • @magnificus8581
    @magnificus8581 Рік тому +1

    My wife and I loved Unicorn Town! I had my parents watch it and have told my friends. Really compelling story and great execution!

  • @musicofnote1
    @musicofnote1 Рік тому +26

    Schwäbisch Hall wasn't really on my "go to" list. I spend several weeks a year going to southern German (mostly) towns and cities admiring the half-timber (Fachwerkhäuser) houses there. But after watching many of your videos with views from above and in the streets, I'm off to the Schwäbisch Hall area on September 23 for 6 days. One day visiting Schwäbisch Hall itself and Vellberg. The next day I'll spend at the Freilicht Museum "Hohenloher Freilandmuseum". Then another day off to Schwäbisch Gmund. And the last day off to Backnang and Heilbronn. thanks for the inspiration - and take care of your knee!
    BTW - excellent point at the end of the video. Can only say "BINGO". And that as an almost 70 year old who was also faceed with choices, all of which in their own ways led me to where I am now. Could have turned out a LOT different. Since I don't really believe in either luck or karma, I suppose there were other more concrete reasons for having made the choices I did. Some where kinda forced onto me - not the "what" or the "where" but rather the "time" - being pusheed from circumstances to change those circumstances. So ... wondering what my next choices/chances will be....

    • @Tobi9012
      @Tobi9012 Рік тому +1

      Sounds like a cool trip, but Schwäbisch Gmünd is really not worth it...
      Instead I can recommend Öhringen, Löwenstein or (if you want to drive a bit further) Dinkelsbühl or "Rothenburg ob der Tauber".

    • @DarkHarlequin
      @DarkHarlequin Рік тому +2

      Have fun hope you enjoy your Schwäbisch-Hall mini Adventure 🤗

    • @musicofnote1
      @musicofnote1 Рік тому +1

      @@Tobi9012 - thanks. Already seen Dinkelsbühl and of course Rothenburg ob der Tauber.

    • @Singurarity88
      @Singurarity88 Рік тому +1

      @@Tobi9012 What's not worth about Schwäbisch Gmünd? Älteste Stauferstadt, Gold und Silberstadt. Much History with the Limes Wall from the Romans. Hope you know the History there and don't just judge by the city you live in or like the most.

    • @olgamaier1212
      @olgamaier1212 Рік тому

      @@Tobi9012 I know the city itself is not the most beautiful, but the eversince the Landesgartenschau the parcs and even some of the city (Zeiselberg or Remsstrand) are just chefs kiss. I mean take a look at the Rechberg or Spielburg Hohenstaufen, they are just stunning.
      I do love the other cities you mentioned though :)

  • @kerry4385
    @kerry4385 Рік тому

    This is one of the best videos you made so far

  • @omniphage9391
    @omniphage9391 Рік тому

    your "bidde" when ordering the coffe was on point, impressed

  • @barbarabenoit3667
    @barbarabenoit3667 Рік тому

    Out of all the options on youtube. I chose your video. Did not hesitate, just clicked. And was happy with my choice. Thanks for a great video!

  • @elipa3
    @elipa3 Рік тому +2

    I myself as german sometimes have difficulties to choose between all sort of breads here. But I love it. Just imaginging I all times have to eat just one sort of bread gives me the creeps.

  • @MaskedBishop
    @MaskedBishop Рік тому +8

    I fully agree. I have a master's degree in chemistry, a master's degree in musicology, and been tutoring students in math for a few years now, and because I can't decide which road to choose, year after year passes with small jobs. 🙈 I'm overqualified for many jobs, but also lack the required enthusiasm and energy for jobs with high salaries because of that.

    • @mojojim6458
      @mojojim6458 Рік тому

      I hope a firm path opens up to you.

    • @Stoffmonster467
      @Stoffmonster467 Рік тому

      Just start one thing: we have often prejudices about a job, and every job can be "developed", as it depends on the personality of all (staff, boss) and the unknown future movements that economy and history make. This is my experience.

    • @robletterly6679
      @robletterly6679 Рік тому

      It me. I've decided that the two master's degrees I hold are each not ends in of themselves; but represent journeys I took at specific times in my life for other reasons besides financial success. The emotional needs that were met during the process far outweigh the fact that I haven't magically become a millionaire because I achieved X degree

  • @mattball2700
    @mattball2700 Рік тому +1

    Great topic. In the social and decision sciences, it is called "The Curse of Choice."

  • @huawafabe
    @huawafabe Рік тому +3

    I chose to quit my job and start something totally different. I know that phenomenon quite well.

  • @LucasBenderChannel
    @LucasBenderChannel Рік тому +16

    I just chose some Masters programmes I might wanna pursue and holyyy - yes - the pressure that comes from an overwhelming list of options is insane. Being able to study basically anything anywhere is simultaneously freeing and insane. You can't choose. At some point in the process, you gotta just go with your gut.

    • @mojojim6458
      @mojojim6458 Рік тому +4

      Good luck with your studies. And I hope you have no regrets.

    • @sisuguillam5109
      @sisuguillam5109 Рік тому +2

      Viel Erfolg! Du machst das schon!
      Und viel Spaß dabei!

  • @renieb1986
    @renieb1986 Рік тому +2

    The 100k-milestone is getting closer and closer...

  • @cavendermary3954
    @cavendermary3954 Рік тому

    I enjoy your videos and your perspective! Keep them coming!

  • @Mayagick
    @Mayagick Рік тому +1

    You can't have a cake and eat it, but you can have 2 Butterbrezeln at once.

  • @johannabangert5561
    @johannabangert5561 Рік тому

    I really like that you put sense/ small input to think about into your videos.

  • @Desperoro
    @Desperoro Рік тому +4

    This is so true. I attended one thru-hike (as you have in USA pacific crest trail in Balkans is Via Dinarica). I followed the path...till the end. And then in Valbone (Albania). I had 14 days to travel. Anywhere! I was so lost, so unsatisfied, I didn't know where to go, what is best, will it be for me, will it be boring or great?

  • @nomirrors3552
    @nomirrors3552 Рік тому +3

    Choice paralysis.... I knew about it. But regret, that's even more pernicious.

  • @maikes8997
    @maikes8997 Рік тому

    I hate that this is so true-- I love having choices, I want to have choices -- but that totally leads to stress and anxiety.

  • @turtoiseanvideos
    @turtoiseanvideos Рік тому

    I always try to be conscious about what I know and more importantly what I cannot know before I make a decision.
    Because when I later wonder why I decided in that way, I can acknowledge that, while another choice might in hindsight could have been better somehow, in reality that it was never an option for the person I was back then and given what I could and could not have known.
    And if I reenact the decision making process, I'll most often come to the same decision based on the available knowledge of the time.
    Thus I even can recognize a choice in hindsight as bad/wrong while also not have to regret it (too much).

  • @Timbo_1
    @Timbo_1 Рік тому

    Your "Bitte" at 3:23 almost sounds a bit like northern German accent. We talk here like Bidde, Budder, Muddi etc. made me smile ^^

  • @gerardmackay8909
    @gerardmackay8909 Рік тому +7

    When the author Bill Bryson returned to live in his native US after two decades away he observed that the need to make choices dominated even the simplest of tasks. He went into a coffee shop and asked for a coffee and was bamboozled by a 5 minute stream of the options available from skinny lattes to macchiatos whether foamed, frothed or flat and with a dozen different milk options. In his frustration he finally said ‘Look every morning when they get out of bed millions of Americans make themselves a coffee, I want one of those’

    • @mojojim6458
      @mojojim6458 Рік тому

      A five minute stream?

    • @gerardmackay8909
      @gerardmackay8909 Рік тому

      @@mojojim6458 yes what seemed like a constant stream of options which felt like it lasted as long as 5 minutes (I’m sure he was exaggerating for dramatic effect but hopefully you now get the gist)

    • @mojojim6458
      @mojojim6458 Рік тому

      @@gerardmackay8909 Oh, I get the gist, but I question the premise.

    • @gerardmackay8909
      @gerardmackay8909 Рік тому

      @@mojojim6458 sorry you’re going to have to amplify that. What exactly is the premise you are questioning?

  • @renattaburke3500
    @renattaburke3500 Рік тому +1

    Hey, just saw an ad for your film, congrats.

  • @slidenapps
    @slidenapps Рік тому +1

    There is no choice. You already know what you're going to do.

  • @horst4439
    @horst4439 Рік тому +1

    You're very lucky to live in a town where many real bakeries still exist. In the place where I live right now just recently all 3 craft bakeries ceized to exist. One is still alive, but very soon the shop will be run by a larger baking factory as well. I will sorely miss my real "Genetztes".

  • @Fred2303
    @Fred2303 Рік тому

    This reminds me so much of my favorite video game Until Dawn. Your choices in the game change the outcome of the story in that game.

  • @jolotschka
    @jolotschka Рік тому

    Even the most disputable decisions in live gives you the pleasure of interesting experience you would never had without.

  • @stirbjoernwesterhever6223
    @stirbjoernwesterhever6223 Рік тому +1

    In 1:04 you are standing in front of the hotel we spend three day this summer in Schwäbisch Hall 🙂
    From our hotel room windows we looked on exact that spot you were standing.

  • @kaipeterson
    @kaipeterson Рік тому +2

    Maaaan, you should get sponsorship from the Schwäbisch Hall tourist bureau

  • @anonkiddo
    @anonkiddo Рік тому

    Nice feel good, happy video - making me happy about my life. You were meant to be in the Unicorns 🦄 team bro - this video made me feel exactly like I would feel if I ever saw a unicorn - hopeful.

  • @AndyGneiss
    @AndyGneiss Рік тому +4

    Nalf, do you make a script, read it in multiple places, and then choose the best takes to make your videos?
    I'm just curious about your filmmaking process (and after watching this video, I'm trying to not think about whether or not you create too many takes for editing-self to work with).
    Best wishes from one of the cities you named!

  • @astridchladek1927
    @astridchladek1927 Рік тому +4

    Socks: Any colour but white!
    Coffee: you should be safe with 4pm
    And thanks for the video by the way! Always good to hear from you! Your jumps are looking great already, hope your knee is all healed! I can slowly get rid of the crutches from today on and can also put all my weight on the injured leg again slowly…. Progress! Only two more weeks of injections and anti-thrombosis-tights! So your video fits , as so often, exactly for my situation at the moment. My path has led me here, but there are so many more choices and paths before me, so many opportunities that might not have presented themselves had I not injured my knee… take care! All the best Astrid

    • @mojojim6458
      @mojojim6458 Рік тому +1

      So glad to hear that you're making progress with your injured knee.
      As for what he see him doing in the gym...I wish he was wearing a brace on both knees.

  • @MarcLucksch
    @MarcLucksch Рік тому

    I never had this problem, I just make a choice by feeling and don’t look back on things I can’t change anymore anyway.

  • @companyjoe
    @companyjoe Рік тому

    Wow, The Dice Man just opened up to me in a new light.

  • @WinByTKo
    @WinByTKo Рік тому +2

    The life graphic really clarifies Neil Peart’s quote, “If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.”

  • @daftwulli6145
    @daftwulli6145 Рік тому +1

    4 or 5 bakeries in hall ? You mean 4 or 4 in walking distance from your house, Schwäbisch hall has a LOT more then 4 or 5 bakeries

  • @juliushauck3981
    @juliushauck3981 Рік тому +1

    That's what you need criteria for 😀
    Of course that doesn't make this phenomen disappear, but it helps a lot to navigate through it.

  • @kenny408
    @kenny408 Рік тому +3

    At least you've chosen the opportunity to live in like an open-air museum. Love visiting cities like this. And there's still the possibility to change your choice, so you couldn't really make a completely wrong one. That's a great privilege I guess. Thanks for sharing.

  • @danhutson3460
    @danhutson3460 Рік тому +1

    I'm 66 will be 67 on 09/29 & I don't know if I could move to another state(have lived in Georgia my entire life), much less to another country. My parents are deceased & my sister is 71 & all of her children live in GA & most of her grandchildren. I have no children & have never been married. Many of my friends & some family have moved away from Georgia & that makes me kind of sad, as I rarely see them & have very little contact, but I figure some people were born to travel far off & that is all I can think of right now.

  • @michele1491
    @michele1491 Рік тому

    Lived in Tanzania for a couple of years. As we prepared to move back to the US, I had a nightmare about walking into Walmart and just shutting down due to the overwhelmingness of the selection.

  • @joekhatib3798
    @joekhatib3798 Рік тому +1

    Just finished watching the documentary, NICE, VERY NICE! You and Christian McCaffrey did a fabulous job! Looks like little bro Andy and his Cal squad got an opening win this past Saturday! 👍

  • @jamesmoellenhoff4922
    @jamesmoellenhoff4922 Рік тому +1

    Enjoy your blog. I too, am an expat and have lived in Germany for over 32 years. Your entry brought up two good examples I'd like to mention. Read the Grisham book Playing for Pizza, for a nice picture of an American, former NFL QB and wasn't hireable anymore in the NFL. It is fiction but a great read! Another good example of your "choice" phenomena, is the movie "Look Both Ways". The premise of that movie, is one of predetermination. Choices start you on your path and though your path is circuitous, you may end up exactly where you were meant to be. I found it interesting.
    Keep up the blog and take care of your knee!

    • @mojojim6458
      @mojojim6458 Рік тому

      I'm Scottish, so predestination/predetermination is always of interest to me. Thanks.

    • @inka87871
      @inka87871 Рік тому

      Nalf is playing for Pretzel 🤣

  • @mgshg1627
    @mgshg1627 Рік тому +1

    My regular Netflix struggle in a nutshell 😁

  • @JayOz1
    @JayOz1 Рік тому

    Another great video Nalf 🤙 Could you please link me with your all your Camera gear etc.

  • @uliwehner
    @uliwehner Рік тому +3

    interesting topic. as a german who moved to the US. I never fret over decisions i made. and i have made some big ones. My feeling about all that, and also about feeling stuck somewhere (i never felt that way btw) is that you make decisions that give you options, if you can't see one that makes you happy right away. The opportunities i got in life came from decisions i made on my own, and then i jumped on the opportunities as they opened up. example: I grew up in Schweinfurt, with some of the biggest industry in germany, thought i would be an engineer, you know the easy choice. found it boring and studied languages instead. my exchange program brought me to the US, met my american wife. Eventually moved to the US. my first job i got because a spoke german... over a career of almost 25 years i ended up in a software engineering position. Life has it's own way of getting you places. and, now my language skills are completely second fiddle, gotta brush up on my spanish, though. Let's see what retirement brings :)

    • @annetnambawa2953
      @annetnambawa2953 Рік тому +1

      Oh hi i moved to schweinfurt 7 years go.

    • @mojojim6458
      @mojojim6458 Рік тому

      You've had a very interesting life, Uli. Thanks for telling us about it.

  • @nomaam9077
    @nomaam9077 Рік тому

    0:07 - That's from Monty Python: The Ministry of Silly Walks! 😉👍

  • @LaureninGermany
    @LaureninGermany Рік тому +12

    Always tip a street musician if they add to your experience! We don’t do it for fun, so lead by example, everyone, please. I also think it’s better than begging with no contribution, so don’t hold back.

    • @NALFVLOGS
      @NALFVLOGS  Рік тому +8

      Yep they always gets a coin from me, they make downtown vibes so great!

    • @hypatian9093
      @hypatian9093 Рік тому +2

      I don't have much but I always give something, even if it's only 20 Cent. Just seeing me do it might motivate other people to do it (who have more money to give) ;)

    • @frankendragon5442
      @frankendragon5442 Рік тому +1

      @@NALFVLOGS You are a good man, Nalf!

    • @uliwehner
      @uliwehner Рік тому +2

      i like the little skit about the bar owner who tells the musician to play at his bar, for free, as an opportunity to get the word out.... then the musician tells the bar owner to show up at his next band practice with free drinks, you know for exposure.

    • @LaureninGermany
      @LaureninGermany Рік тому

      @@uliwehner unfortunately, all too true. I know my life changed when I stopped being taken in by that rubbish.

  • @GetRidOfCivilAssetForfeiture

    I know what you mean about the busses almost hitting you. When I worked in Ueberlingen Am Bodensee, the commercial trucks could barely fit on the streets in the old part of the town and you had to jump into a doorway to avoid getting hit as the truck would literally barrel down the street.
    As for too many choices, I know what you mean. I live in a city of about 22,000 people and we have 4 Asian food market stores. And the number of restaurants is at least several dozen (not counting chain franchise fast food, etc). This is a popular tourist destination on an international scale so having all these good to great restaurants is fine but it makes it hard for even a local like me to decide where to eat. Thing is, the number of people that live on the coast within a 15 mile stretch is only 125k and our entire county is less than 500k. By the way, Salinas, which is about 150k, has many fine eating establishments as well, making the choosing of where to eat even more difficult.

  • @Kordanor
    @Kordanor Рік тому

    I tend to research a lot before I make a choice and gather pros and cons. And actually, if its "important" or expensive my choice is usually to procrastinate. Over time either a new better choice comes along, or one of the old options drops off. Ofc its not always feasible and can also be a problem. But it kind of depends what kind of person you are I guess.
    Not a fan of like asian To-Go restraurants where you have to decide what you want to put together (100g this 50g that, 3 pieces of this, 5 of that). I tend to ask them first whether they got any menu.

  • @criticalPhase
    @criticalPhase Рік тому

    I wonder how often you watched "Everything, Everywhere, All at once" before you did this video. 😆😘

  • @3.k
    @3.k Рік тому

    2:26 With the Thick Beard costume, Nalf is almost unrecognisable. 😁

  • @linoliebmann
    @linoliebmann Рік тому

    Good message! Thanks for your video.

  • @TheyCalledMeT
    @TheyCalledMeT Рік тому

    25sec in, you have seen beauty ... and miss it direly now in the US

  • @DaveTexas
    @DaveTexas Рік тому

    This is always a problem for me when I travel. Where to go? What to see? Which restaurants to try? My last international trip was to Paris. We had five days in the city. There were a few things I knew I wanted to see, but there were thousands of other things I would like to have seen and done. I only had so much time, so I had to choose only a few other things. Afterwards, I found myself wishing I’d seen some things that we chose not to see.
    On the other hand, having too many choices gives me incentive to want to go back to see or try different things. Then, of course, I might regret not going to a different city. I guess that’s why I’ve spent nearly all my money on traveling the world since I was in college.

  • @michele1491
    @michele1491 Рік тому

    I would love to hear you discuss Edward T Hall’s Cultural Iceberg Model. I find it is very helpful when explaining to my friends and family members who don’t live overseas why some countries are easier for me to live in than others. I would never as a younger woman expected that some of these variables would be as major to me as they are.

  • @rrl4245
    @rrl4245 Рік тому +1

    A favorite line: "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." (Robert Frost. 'The Road Not Taken')

  • @tomyoung2935
    @tomyoung2935 Рік тому

    You gave us a lot to think about. 👍👍👍👍

  • @HollywoodModelling
    @HollywoodModelling Рік тому

    Will the film ever be available outside the US without a VPN?

  • @patrickwings1467
    @patrickwings1467 Рік тому

    First time I comment Nick, excellent video and it very much describes my life :D I am a digital nomad, financially well set and I can chose where to live. I am hopping from city to city, country to country, continent to continent and I always think - Where to go next? Not complaining about it of course, I love it. Just appreciate the PRESENT and do not look back and let your heart lead you. All the best for you, stay healthy and happy.

  • @karinland8533
    @karinland8533 Рік тому +1

    In my opinion over choice is also connected to the fear of missing out.

  • @elephantcastle5110
    @elephantcastle5110 Рік тому +2

    Regret over missed opportunities can be debilitating. It's important to let the past be past and take it from here.
    Tldr: I approve this message.

  • @51pinn
    @51pinn Рік тому

    There is a saying: If you are open to all sides, you are not completely sealed. That means nothing else than that you have to make decisions throughout your life and then have to stand by this decision. The question of how your own life would have turned out if you had taken a different path cannot be answered because you cannot know who you will meet on this path and thus influence your own life. So the question cannot be whether the decision was right, but whether you did everything right after making that decision. If you can largely say yes, then in the end it doesn't matter which path you have taken because you can look back on a fulfilling life. And even if you make the wrong decision or two, you can still try to make the best of the situation that then arises.

  • @tixien
    @tixien Рік тому +7

    Ok, but was it really a choice? Or rather the inevitable consequence of an infinity of factors that make you you, genetics, education, experiences, environment…, some conscious, most not? Contemplating theoretical options doesn’t make a choice. Even if you try to put this “choice” as rationally as you can, your own level of rationality is not a choice you made, it’s just the result of your personal history so far. A strictly identical twin of yours, who spent his whole life with you, has had the exact same life as you but just this one time when he talked for an hour with this Italian person who brought him a different knowledge and perspective, might have picked Italy instead of Germany.
    So is it a choice when it depends on factors you can’t control?

  • @Ekki1701
    @Ekki1701 Рік тому

    Interesting last shot... I almost expected you to talk to the Camera again and say "Was Ihr seid immer noch da? Abschalten!" like Peter Lustig used to do in his Show "Löwenzahn"

  • @huliganalter6095
    @huliganalter6095 Рік тому

    I can feel you at 1:28 xD as a German i‘m impressed too how these bus drivers are going so confident and fast through those streets xD but they are everywhere like this in Germany

  • @marmotarchivist
    @marmotarchivist Рік тому

    I like to think about pivotal points in my life that lead me down the path I walk right now and how coincidental some of those moments were. But I never doubt the rightness of the path I chose, because it is the one I life right now and thus the right one.

  • @rubytuesday9539
    @rubytuesday9539 Рік тому

    I thought that this was going to be about Germany not having enough energy for this winter.

  • @mnamnam6061
    @mnamnam6061 Рік тому

    1000000 possibilities, one to choose from.
    What should you do? Take the one you like most, brain and heart compatible at best, or become pessimistic about all the possibilities you left behind?
    I guess it's one of the most challenging things in life to find out, if I was really clear in my mind when choosing a way, or was it again a hidden believe I followed. But it looks like the more I listen inside, the better I can clear these things up, then decide and stay with it until new impressions come my way.

  • @AndreasHannoverSL
    @AndreasHannoverSL Рік тому

    the best thing about your videos is that you don't use any click bait at all

  • @sp7873
    @sp7873 Рік тому +1

    couldnt agree more - but the toughest part is taking action! :)

  • @xyincognito
    @xyincognito Рік тому

    I fully understand this over-choice problem. there are so many workouts and training sessions for free that i always end up doing none of them :D

  • @sunshinegirl2015
    @sunshinegirl2015 Рік тому

    As someone with indecision I totally agree. 😂😅

  • @pyramidus
    @pyramidus Рік тому

    Thanks for a video whose only purpose was to make me crave for coffee and a pretzel.

  • @danielmatzner2507
    @danielmatzner2507 Рік тому

    Great message.

  • @jonasphilipp
    @jonasphilipp Рік тому +2

    I love the video. It makes so match sense

  • @katjachrist5618
    @katjachrist5618 Рік тому

    A journey down philosophy path because of an over-choice of butter pretzels - philosophical pretzels they are - love this clip 🤘🏻

  • @bobavontanelorn5713
    @bobavontanelorn5713 Рік тому

    My daughter took a choice - she definetly wants your basecap… +smirk+ best regards from northern germany (unicorns, you know … -sigh-)

  • @nikaley
    @nikaley Рік тому

    Applies well to basically every aspect of life. Even the romantic parts.

  • @richiejune3604
    @richiejune3604 Рік тому

    3:26 I recognize that song it fur Elise it a og classic song I love it

  • @susannabonke8552
    @susannabonke8552 Рік тому +1

    Very interesting point. Also when life treats you bad. Try to have peace of mind with what you got.

  • @freudsigmund72
    @freudsigmund72 Рік тому +2

    Getting married is like going to dinner with friends. You order what you like, but when you see what they have ordered, you wish you had ordered that too. 🤓

  • @robm328
    @robm328 Рік тому

    A bit of poetry I memorized in fourth grade….Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken…

  • @DominikKJakob
    @DominikKJakob Рік тому

    Two roads diverged in a yellow wood...

  • @liamwagner6597
    @liamwagner6597 Рік тому

    Spoiled for choice, been there in senior year high school. Didn't follow good or even better choices my career counselor brought up and still don't regret it.

  • @goblingoddessgaming608
    @goblingoddessgaming608 Рік тому

    About ten years ago I read a book about this topic. Over choice does indeed make us feel bad. There's a happy middle ground between no choice (sad) and too many choices (stress and regret).
    I believe this crazy amount of choice for EVERYTHING is part of the reason people are so stressed out and less happy than our grandparents who didn't have to make so many choices on a daily basis. It's just not healthy to always be second guessing your every choice. But of course companies want it that way, hell, they even create problems you never knew you had like monitoring your daily water intake so you're at optimal hydration! And other nonsense gadgets that full you with anxiety.
    There's further research that some people second guess their choices more than others. The happiest people are the ones who just buy the first thing they see at a store and never look back. I'm sadly in the category of people who agonizes over every choice. At least I do enough research to be fairly happy with my choice, lol.

  • @sebastiangmail8823
    @sebastiangmail8823 Рік тому

    oh ha bald 100k Abos🏄🏻