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There's a great article here on closing doors. On the way that people keep avoiding making choices that will close off their options, even if making that choice will clearly give them a better outcome.

I've been guilty of this an astounding number of times.

Still working on it :->

(cheers to [livejournal.com profile] tamaranth)

Edit:
Cheers also to [livejournal.com profile] diotina for this link to an New Yorker article on irrational decision making referencing the same author.

Date: 2008-03-01 10:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] communicator.livejournal.com
From one of those linked articles I read the following comment, which I like:

From my advanced-age vantage point (80,) I see these tergiversations as part of our awareness that life is a continuous creation. I have decided to see life as a sculpture. I add, I remove, I polish, I step back and evaluate. I can decide to be abstract, modernist, post-modernist, classical, primitive, move back and forth, stay put, celebrate, regret. Life is a blast!


I hope that really is a lovely old guy (or gal) who has seen it all, and takes blog commenting in her stride along with all the other changes in life.

Date: 2008-03-01 12:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] diotina.livejournal.com
*grins* I like that a lot too. Thanks for posting it.

Date: 2008-03-01 05:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pennski.livejournal.com
Oh that reminds me of the sort of thing KVB used to say. [personal profile] bookzombie and I were talking earlier today about how Stephen Fry shares that same sheer joy in erudition that lifts you up to his level, whereas Jeremy Paxman sneers down at lesser mortals.

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