decisions vs choices: what's the diff?
spag mol essay idea. something instinctive tells me they’re not the same thing, but it’s going to need further investigation.
decisions vs choices: what's the diff?
Decisions correspond to externally observable actions; choices are more internal and sensed.
Changing your mind can be a choice, but it’s not a decision. We don’t decide to change our minds; it’s more full-bodied than that. Changing our minds is a nuisance. It means rewiring countless associations and links between things, disconnecting and reconnecting dots.
We don’t decide to do this (why would we willingly, repeatedly put ourselves thro
Autonomy, as they see it, is different from independence. It’s not the rugged, go-it-alone, rely-on-nobody individualism of the American cowboy. It means acting with choice - which means we can be both autonomous and happily interdependent with others. And while the idea of independence has national and political reverberations, autonomy appears to... See more
Daniel H. Pink • Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
optimise for autonomy versus freedom/independence (we all exist within a context)
I want to be on the hook for you.
I guess that’s what I’m saying.
I guess that’s what I’m saying.
The Horizontal Cult
I've been thinking a lot about whether there is a difference between 'choices' and 'decisions'. We use them interchangeably, but I wonder if there's a distinction. Choices feel more instinctive, maybe even emotional; decisions seem more deliberate and agentic. In the context of your reflection, that might look like DECIDING how we show up, but only
... See moreWill is the difference between believing and doing. It does not appear magically from nothing, but comes from living the knowledge that all beings of this earth are made of the same stuff, part of the same causally coherent system, and that no fundamental distinctions divide us. The will to care is not simply a choice, but our duty as parts of the ... See more
Hurry Up We're Dreaming
May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears
First, become able to feel conviction even in the face of high uncertainty. Second, learn how to weigh your options so hard that by the time you've picked the best available action, no part of you has an urge to go back into "deliberation mode" until you encounter new evidence or ideas that would have changed the result of your deliberation. Third,... See more
Nate Soares • Dive in
A mistake repeated more than once is a decision. —Paulo Coelho