Free markets allow anyone who thinks they have a better idea and wants to give it a try to start their own business with their own brand and style of product or service. The products and services consumers like get purchased, and if enough consumers purchase them, the business survives. If not enough consumers like them, the business goes bankrupt and goes away – as it should. This clears the “deadwood” in the marketplace, and producers learn from the failures.
This produces a wide variety of products and services. It produced technology, where we can shop the world from home. We can meet people and interact from our devices anywhere we are. We have unlimited entertainment options. We have the opportunity to craft the life experience we want based on what we choose to pay attention to.
It also creates a problem. Were our brains made for all these options? The answer is no. We can have decision fatigue if we feel we have to look at and consider them all. We can second guess ourselves. We can become overloaded. We can become seduced by messages, advertising and “news” that consume much of our time.
I think we have to approach this abundance with a healthy sense of what direction we want to go and who we want to be, and let it accelerate our progress instead of distract us from it.
I may have a monkey mind – but I am the monkey, and the monkey should remember to stay in charge of his life.