Choices

I recently attended a seminar that was on how choices help you to succeed or rather how choices make you happy/satisfied. Many people say I make a better choice when I have lot of options available others say I prefer no choices, they distract me. But do we actually look at the choices available? Even after we consider so many available options do we take the one which we want? or do external factors affect our choices?

In school there are wide streams to choose from, but 90% choose computers.And 95% of the people choose engineering as stream, how many of these 95% wanted to be engineer since ever? how many choose it cause of their parents or siblings or friends? how many just went with the flow?After engineering people go for MBA easiest and safest option. I don't say it easy to become an engineer or qualify CAT, what I want to say here is they see MBA as the only option. These days youngsters actually follow a straight path, their visibility is hindered. I have a feeling they don't explore all the available options, they know what to do without considering what to do.

But this is case in India only, here external factors like - what he is doing, or what will they say, or will I earn enough, affect a person's decision. Whereas in places outside India people don't bother much they look at the available options, they understand their interest, they respect what ever a job is, they don't bother what he/she is doing.

There are options, there are great minds also but just because mass thinks that path has sharp stones or rather that path is too flowery, people don't opt for it.