Sometimes you decide before doing
Other times you decide after doing
Knowing which kind of decision you face is key.
Invert, always invert: Turn a situation or problem upside down. Look at it backward. What happens if all our plans go wrong? Where don’t we want to go, and how do you get there? Instead of looking for success, make a list of how to fail instead - through sloth, envy, resentment, self-pity, entitlement, all the mental habits of self-defeat. Avoid these qualities and you will succeed. Tell me where I’m going to die, that is, so I don’t go there. - Charlie Munger
“It’s not greed that drives the world, but envy.” - charlie munger
"Freedom is precisely the state of not having to choose
Choice is not a form of freedom
Choice is the act of hesitation that we make before making a decision, it is a mental wobbling.
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“The essence of ultimate decision remains impenetrable to the observer - often, indeed, to the decider himself.” — JFK
“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” — Jung
“Most people don’t have the guts to make the tough decisions cuz they wanna make the right decision so they make no decisions, and that’s a decision.” — Tony Robbins
“Decision makers can satisfice either by finding optimum solutions for a simplified world, or by finding satisfactory solutions for a more realistic world.” — Herbert Simon
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– Satisficing has been rejected / doesn’t work – Optimising isn’t possible (decision is binary etc) – Self belief
One ought to be a riddle not only to others but also to oneself. — Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or
A spiritual way out (at least in personal matters)
Listen to both/all sides
‘repetition […] is a task for free- dom, […] it signifies freedom itself, consciousness raised to the second power’.
negative reactions are generally more conditioned than positive ones, but due to ego “positive” gets negative connotations, so i aim for a “lukewarm” mix of considered, wistful melancholy in my decision making
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