When we pursue optionality, we avoid bold decisions. Like anything meaningful, venturing into the unknown is an act of faith. It demands responsibility. You‘ll have to take a stand, trust your decision, and ignore the taunts of outside dissent. But a life without conviction is a life controlled by the futile winds of fashion. Or worse, the hollow echoes of the crowd.
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As Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard wrote, “The thing that cowardice fears most is decision; for decision always scatters the mists, at least for a moment.”
If you spend your life keeping your options open, that’s exactly what you’ll do . . . spend your life keeping your options open.
But for most of us, if we’re being honest with ourselves, the temptation is often to exaggerate potential consequences, so as to spare ourselves the burden of making a bold choice. (It’s a particular peril among the progressive-minded, I’ve noticed, to take the fact that a given choice might be unfeasible for the underprivileged as a reason not to
... See more... See moreYou come to realize that missing out on something —indeed, on almost everything—is basically guaranteed. Which isn’t actually a problem…because “missing out” is what makes our choices meaningful in the first place. Every decision to use a portion of time on anything represents the sacrifice of all the other ways in which you could have spent that t
If you spend your life keeping your options open, that’s exactly what you’ll do . . . spend your life keeping your options open.
WHEN MAKING THE RIGHT CHOICE REQUIRES INTELLIGENCE AND COURAGE