How to deal with the choice overload in your life: Sylvia Plath’s fig tree analogy in the context of decision-making

She was “starving to death” because she couldn’t make up her mind which of the many figs she wanted to choose. It is the case in everybody’s life and even though it is tragic, we can not escape it. Viewing this analogy through the lens of complexity, decision-making, and enabling the right constraints can make it less scary and even dealt with to some extent.