“Memory is not a perfect record. It is a story we keep rewriting.”
Source: The Echoes Within
“Whose reality is perfect? I mean, don't tell me someone is. I want to meet that person, if their reality is perfect.”
“Creating harmonious, thriving societies will be humankind's greatest triumph and without that--everything else we have accomplished will be for naught.”
Source: Blueprint for Local Harmony: A People's Guide to Utopia
“You gripe, you bitch for weeks on end about how you can't stand this place, can't stand the nurse or anything about her, and all the time you ain't committed.”
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
“Introduction (page XV)
No matter what type of decision you're facing, it's imperative to develop a decision process that not only improves your decision quality, but also helps sort your decisions so you can identify which ones are bigger and which ones are smaller.”
Source: How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices
“Introduction (page XVII)
Any decision is, in essence, a prediction about the future.”
Source: Heads-Up Tournament Poker: Hand-by-Hand
“Chapter 1: Resulting (page 20)
Resulting makes us lack compassion for ourselves and others.
When someone has a bad outcome in their life, we judge their decision-making as poor because of resulting. That makes it easy to blame them for the way things turned out. No need to have compassion because the outcome was their fault.
And it's not just other people. We lack self-compassion when we make these connections in our own lives. We beat ourselves up when things don't work out the way we had hoped.
For good outcomes, we're not doing anyone a service by potentially overlooking their mistakes simply because it worked out. We're definitely hurting ourselves, not just in learning, but in assessing our self-worth based on how things turned out rather than on whether we made a good decision under the circumstances.”
Source: How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices
“تعرفون اني لم أكن ملاكا طيلة الوقت , و أن الخلافات كانت تحدث من حيت لآخر , لكن لو نظرت للصورة الإجمالية من بعيد -حين تختفي البقع السوداء الصغيرة
لأدركت اننا سعيدين حقا ..”
“Introduction (page XV)
The only thing you have control over that can influence the way your life turns out is the quality of your decisions.”
Source: How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices
“Chapter 1: Resulting (page 3)
Resulting
A mental shortuct in which we use the quality of an outcome to figure out the quality of a decision.”
Source: How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices