What you see determines how you interpret the world, which in turn influences what you expect of the world and how you expect the story of your life to unfold.

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.

So on the one hand in school you're teachers are constantly telling you that you can be whatever it is you want to be as long as you put your mind and heart to it, and yet at the same time I was also getting the clear message of, well, what can you do really?

Too many choices can overwhelm us and cause us to not choose at all. For businesses, this means that if they offer us too many choices, we may not buy anything.

What's interesting is that the way we go about finding our marriage partners today is quite different from the way it used to be in this culture.

We are sculptors finding ourselves in the evolution of choosing, not in the results of choice.

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.