Maximisers or Satisficers, Which is best

Which is best?

"As a general rule, maximisers do better, but feel worse," says Barry Schwartz, professor emeritus of psychology at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, who's researched and written extensively about maximisers and satisficers.

"[Maximisers] get better jobs, for example, but are less satisfied with the jobs they get. So the question to be asked is whether what is more important to you is the objective result or the subjective result."

Another thing to keep in mind is that, like extroversion and introversion , most people lie somewhere between the two types.