Choices and Liberty (Positive/Negative)

Sometime back I had posted someplace else about paradox of choices and +/- liberty. Thought would migrate that as here as well...

When people have no choice, life is almost unbearable ....
But as the number of choices keeps growing,
negative aspects of having a multitude
of options begin to appear.

Clinging tenaciously to all the choices available to us
contributes to bad decisions, to anxiety, stress,
and dissatisfaction — even to clinical depression.

A distinguished political philosopher Isaiah Berlin made an important distinction between negative liberty and positive liberty.
Negative liberty, freedom from — freedom from constraint, freedom from being told what to do by others.
Positive liberty, freedom to — the availability of opportunities to be the author of your life, to make it meaningful and significant.

Read on paradox of choices by Barry Schwartz