Why we avoid making difficult decisions
People are averse to making (objectively and subjectively) difficult choices because they don’t want the stress of weighing all the options or the responsibility of dealing with the eventual outcome — both, good and bad.
It makes us not want to make hard choices and come up with all kinds of adaptive ways of avoiding them.
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