“The problem is that this search for the perfect person can generate a lot of stress,” writes Ansari. But, the downside of this wealth of opportunity is that it makes people tend to rush to judgment based on superficial information and to constantly second-guess themselves about whether, by dating someone, they may be settling too soon, before finding that the elusive Mr. The benefits are pretty obvious: your chance of meeting someone that you click with increases with the more people you meet.
These days, people can increase their dating choices exponentially via online dating services like OKCupid, or Tinder, to name a few, all with relative ease. In the past, single people may have met potential dates mostly through family, friends, or colleagues.
The results of this search convinced Ansari that, while the immediacy of the Internet and the ubiquity of mobile phones have made some aspects of relationship-building easier, they’ve also made other aspects much more complicated.įrom the GGSC to your bookshelf: 30 science-backed tools for well-being. He also combed through research and interviewed experts in the field-like happiness expert Jonathan Haidt, marriage and family historian Stephanie Coontz, and psychologist Barry Schwartz, who studies the science of choice, to name a few. But, by teaming up New York University sociologist Eric Klinenberg, he’s written a fascinating, substantial, and humorous book exploring how technology has evolved along with the search for love and how it has shaped our romantic relationships.Īnsari spent over a year interviewing hundreds of people from around the world about their dating experiences and love lives. Ansari, a comic best known for his performance on the TV show Parks and Recreation, may be an odd choice to author a serious book on this subject.
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