"Whether a decision is good or bad can change based on how you act after the choice is made.
You can't learn all the lessons beforehand. You learn a lot about what you want in a marriage after getting married. You discover what type of career you enjoy after doing a lot of work. And so it goes in nearly every area of life. In many cases, what you w... See more
You can't learn all the lessons beforehand. You learn a lot about what you want in a marriage after getting married. You discover what type of career you enjoy after doing a lot of work. And so it goes in nearly every area of life. In many cases, what you w... See more
3-2-1: On getting what you deserve, the power of flexibility, and how good decisions are made
the only way to live authentically is to acknowledge that you’re inevitably always making decision after decision, decisions that will shape your life in lasting ways, even though you can’t ever know in advance what the best choice might be. In fact, you’ll never know in hindsight, either – because no matter how great or appalling the consequences
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“If you're ever wondering what is the right decision, ‘Should I do this, or should I do that? Should I live here, or should I live there? Should I take this job or that job?’ that just the act of choosing one and wholeheartedly committing to it makes your choice the best choice. It is your commitment itself that can make any choice the right choice... See more
A great decision isn’t one where you avoid the bad outcomes and get the good outcomes.
It’s one where you are who you want to be, no matter the outcome.
Joe Hudsonx.comin mathematics there is a theory called “optimal stopping”, which lays out mathematically when you should make a choice when you have potentially infinite options but you cannot go back to a the current option if you discard it.
as the internet enables the illusion of infinite, it paralyzes groups of people at scale—this video gives a perfect illu... See more
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