Option Paralysis:
The tendency, when given unlimited choices, to make none.
[Often experienced when asked what kind of salad dressing one wants.]
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
The tendency, when given unlimited choices, to make none.
[Often experienced when asked what kind of salad dressing one wants.]
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
Related:
- Poor Buoyancy:
The realization that one was a better person when one had less money.
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - 101-ism:
The tendency to pick apart, often in minute detail,
all aspects of life using half-understood pop psychology... - Dumpster Clocking:
The tendency when looking at objects to guesstimate the amount
of time they will take to eventually decompose:
"Ski boots are the worst. Solid plastic. They'll be... - Knee-Jerk Irony:
The tendency to make flippant ironic comments as a reflexive
matter of course in everyday conversation.
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Strangelove Reproduction:
Having children to make up for the fact that one no longer
believes in the future.
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Native Aping:
Pretending to be a native when visiting a foreign destination.
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Homeowner Envy:
Feelings of jealousy generated in the young and the
disenfranchised when facing gruesome housing statistics.
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Power Mist:
The tendency of hierarchies in office environments to be
diffuse and preclude crisp articulation.
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Air Family:
Describes the false sense of community experienced among
coworkers in an office environment.
Douglas Coupland, Generation...
