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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.

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I'm a great believer in the idea of not choosing based on our taste.

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Being a Sikh meant having to do what Mom and Dad said, and going to temple, and Mom and Dad choosing who I would marry. But going to an American school taught me that I was the one who's supposed to make those choices.

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In America we tell our parents to bring their child home and put him or her in a crib; as they get older, children sleep in they own room not in Mom and Dad's room. What are we training them for? It's independence, because that's what being empowered is all about.

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If you have the feeling of choice, if you feel free, you will be better off. And when I say better off I mean that if people feel they have control over their lives, they call in for fewer sick days from work. They have a lesser probability of having a heart attack or stroke. They live longer. They're happier.

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What leads us astray is confusing more choices with more control. Because it is not clear that the more choices you have the more in control you feel. We have more choices than we've ever had before.

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When companies try to guess what consumers want, they essentially make the choice for consumers.

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Knowledge should be a public good, and I want my ideas to have as much exposure as possible.

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Choosing is a creative process, one through which we construct our environment, our lives, ourselves.

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If we ask for more and more material for the construction, i.e. more and more choice, we're likely to end up with a lot of combinations that don't do much for us or are far more complex than they need to be.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Educator

Born: November 29th, 1969

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