5 Modern Paradoxes That Will Blow Your Mind
<p>The dictionary says that a paradox is a fact that seems contrary to logic.</p>
<p>For example, “The craziest is the sanest,” “Internal changes are the most visible,” or “Go slow and you’ll finish sooner.”</p>
<p>I love collecting them.</p>
<p>Because it allows me to see that, in truth, the world is more complex than it seems at first glance, that it is not all black and white, and that there are delicate nuances that color our perception of reality.</p>
<p>Today, I share five I have recorded in the last 20 years. And that paradoxically, they are of a disturbing actuality.</p>
<h1>1. Diversity of choice leaves you with no choice</h1>
<p>We swim in a sea of possibilities, and they boggle our minds. It is as if the trees (an infinite number of options) prevent us from seeing the forest (the real problem).</p>
<p>What is the real problem?</p>
<p>The excess of possibilities leaves you with no choice— Paralysis by analysis is what some authors call it.</p>
<p>Ultimately, you give up and stop thinking for yourself because everything you can think of has already been invented.</p>
<p>And that turns you into a voter of realities and robs you of the freedom from being a creator of opportunity.</p>
<p>The search for individual identity is filled with so many possibilities that it is no longer possible to find time to be oneself or listen to oneself. One gets lost in the noise of those identities that one has to try out.</p>
<h1>2. Social hyper-exposure allows you impunity and anonymity.</h1>
<p>Today’s world seems to develop in glass houses, where everyone can see what everyone else is doing.</p>
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