Quotes About Decision

In most of our decisions, we are not betting against another person. Rather, we are betting against all the future versions of ourselves that we are not choosing. We are constantly deciding among alternative futures: one where we go to the movies, one where we go bowling, one where we stay home.

was a victim of our tendency to equate the quality of a decision with the quality of its outcome.

Have you ever had a moment of regret after a decision where you felt, "I knew I should have made the other choice!"? That's an alternative version of you saying, "See, I told you so!

The quality of our lives is the sum of decision quality plus luck.

When it comes to quitting, the most painful thing to quit is who you are.

In every domain, the outcome tail is wagging the decision dog.

As these things change, if we were to rerun the cost-benefit analysis, the output would surely be different. But we don't rerun it.

In the short-term, for any single decision, there is only a loose relationship between the quality of the decision and the quality of the outcome. The two are correlated, but the relationship can take a long time to play out.

You can't tell that much about the quality of a decision from a single outcome, because of luck. When you make a decision, you can rarely guarantee a good outcome (or a bad one). Instead, the goal is to try to choose the option that will lead to the most favorable range of outcomes.

Essentially, kill criteria create a precommitment contract to quit.

Hindsight bias adds to the ruckus caused by knowing the outcome, distorting your memory of what you knew at the time of the decision in two ways: You did know what was going to happen—swapping out your actual view at the time of the decision with a faulty memory of that view to conform to your postoutcome knowledge. You should (or could) have known what was going to happen—to the point of predictability or inevitability.

But omission-commission bias causes us not to view these decisions as equivalent. That's why we accept that explanation of "I'm not ready to make a decision yet" from others and why we accept it from ourselves. Of course, what that really means is "I'm not ready to veer from the status quo.

Over time, those world-class poker players taught me to understand what a bet really is: a decision about an uncertain future.

By asking her if she would be happier in the new job more than 0% of the time, that helped her see that there was some certainty in changing jobs. Specifically, she had a better chance of getting to where she wanted to go faster if she switched. In that moment, she realized the devil that she didn't know was the better choice.

14 h 45. Pour la première fois, j'ose téléphoner à l'ambassade d'URSS pour savoir (cela, savoir, savoir...) s'il y a ou non cinéma aujourd'hui. C'est non et je suis un peu soulagée, juste de ma jalousie, non de mon désir de le voir.

Aujourd'hui si noir (mais pensais-je le garder un an ?).

Voilà. Ce soir, j'ai horreur d'être allée à ce film soviétique inepte. Peut-être n'avait-il pas envie que je vienne. Et peut-être ne me téléphonera-t-il pas. Le seul point positif : le risque qu'il a pris en me suivant, alors que tous venaient de me voir partir. Vraiment le seul. Bien. Et moi ? Quelle conduite tenir ? Rompre Ã¢â'¬â€œ menacer de rompre Ã¢â'¬â€œ ne rien dire. Le choix est là.

Je me souviens d'avoir pensé que ce n'était pas le genre dont j'aurais pu être enceinte. « C'est un très gentil garçon, n'est-ce pas ? » Le docteur souriait et il a paru heureux de mon approbation. Il avait oublié pourquoi j'étais là. Quand il m'a raccompagnée à la porte, il paraissait soulagé. Il ne m'a pas dit de revenir.

Résolution : s'il ne vient pas à Cergy avant mon départ pour Jersey, je le vois encore une fois et je romps. Ou bien je romps au téléphone.

The Hour Between Dog and Wolf,

If you're in a card game and you don't know who the sucker is, you're it.

You have a choice. You can throw in the towel, or you can use it to wipe the sweat off of your face.

Acting was something I did growing up. I never it took it too seriously; it was just one of those things I got into high school and was like, 'Nah, I don't want to continue acting.' Cause I got into it professionally by local theater, and from there, I just decided to do sports and be more a high school kid and have my fun.

Until my senior year, baseball and basketball were my best sports; and even when I was a senior, I still wanted to play baseball professionally. But the family wanted me to go to college, and I guess I agreed with them, or else I would have accepted some of the offers I got.