How do we make choices? What goes behind any choice making process? Do you choose based on data and logic? Do you choose based on your gut? The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator or MBTI categorizes people on the basis of their yardstick of making choices. To what extent is our choice making conditioned by our levels of education or the culture we have grown up in? Are there situations when people may feel relieved that they do not need to make a choice? We are continuously making choices and living with the consequences of making those choices. There are moments when we make a choice and a moment later wish that we could start again. “Choice can be a burden, but without choice, our life loses meaning”, says author Sheena Iyengar in her ground breaking book The Art of Choosing. The headlines first – I LOVED the book. (more…)