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?
A mistake repeated more than once is a decision. —Paulo Coelho
Benjamin Hardy • Personality Isn't Permanent
“Ready” is not a feeling, it’s a decision. You might as well start doing exactly what you want—time will pass anyway.
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)
Decisions correspond to externally observable actions; choices are more internal and sensed.
Between stimulus and response there is space. In that space we have the power to choose. In that choice is our growth and transformation.
(Victor Frankl)
Have the realization that you blinked, your life happened, and you weren’t present in the decision-making process.
We lose curiosity—that sense of wonder and alertness that made everything exciting as a kid. Truthfully, I think our egos are to blame for this one. Curiosity would be admitting you don’t know something. We think we know how life works,
... See moreI'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
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James Clear 3-2-1