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About two months ago I posted a post titled Hans Rosling… a smart guy, which included a link to a video of a talk done by Hans Rosling, a Swedish professor of international health at Karolinska Institutem and founder of Gapminder, where he talks about the myths about the “developing” world.

Once again I have come across a talk held under the name TED talks that is really interesting. This time it’s the professor Barry Schwartz who talks about the Paradox of Choice.

The reason that “everything was better back when everything was worse”, is that when everything was worse it was actually possible for people to have experiences that were a pleasant surprise.

Barry Schwartz is a sociology professor at Swarthmore College and author of the book The Paradox of Choice.

I found both talks really interesting.

• Barry Schwartz talk about The Paradox of Choice
• Hans Rosling talk about world health and the myth about the “developing world”.

It felt a bit wrong linking to this video on the pervious post, a post including links to a David Hasselhoff music video and an article about someone waking up with a lightbuld in their ass…

So here’s the link to Hans Rosling’s talk:
Hans Rosling on TED Talks

And see it. All of you.
It’s really good and really interesting.