Whether you're choosing spaghetti sauce or a life partner, making decisions can be paralyzing. This week, TED speakers explore how we make choices & how we learn to live with them.

We assume that our choices come with prepackaged consequences. But author Malcolm Gladwell explains how we aren't simply passive recipients of our decisions.

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Psycho-economist Sheena Iyengar explains how we can actively use choice as a tool to help us arrive at decisions we can live with.

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Philosopher Ruth Chang has come up with five straightforward steps to help people navigate tough decisions.

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We often think that our decisions are our own. But Duke professor Dan Ariely explains how our environment -- even something as simple as how a question is framed -- can affect what we choose.

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