Quotes About Choice

Adam switches from a gas-guzzler of 12 mpg to a slightly less voracious guzzler that runs at 14 mpg. The environmentally virtuous Beth switches from a 30 mpg car to one that runs at 40 mpg.

framing effects: the large changes of preferences that are sometimes caused by inconsequential variations in the wording of a choice problem.

Poignancy (a close cousin of regret) is a counterfactual feeling, which

risk-averse decision maker will choose a sure thing that is less than expected value, in effect paying a premium to avoid the uncertainty.

Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision Under Risk

Firmly resolve that you will hire the candidate whose final score is the highest, even if there is another one whom you like better

Facing a choice, we gave up rationality rather than give up the enterprise.

Decision makers tend to prefer the sure thing over the gamble (they are risk averse) when the outcomes are good. They tend to reject the sure thing and accept the gamble (they are risk seeking) when both outcomes are negative.

Thoughts of any aspect of life are more likely to be salient if a contrasting alternative is highly available.

This example highlights two aspects of choice that the standard model of indifference curves does not predict. First, tastes are not fixed; they vary with the reference point. Second, the disadvantages of a change loom larger than its advantages, inducing a bias that favors the status quo.

For example, people: believe that they use their bicycles less often after recalling many rather than few instances are less confident in a choice when they are asked to produce more arguments to support it

While your attention is focused on the digits, you are offered a choice between two desserts: a sinful chocolate cake and a virtuous fruit salad. The evidence suggests that you would be more likely to select the tempting chocolate cake when your mind is loaded with digits. System 1 has more influence on behavior when System 2 is busy, and it has a sweet tooth.

În realitate, nimic nu te re?ine acolo unde toat? lumea crede c? trebuie s? r?mâi.

I see now that the path I choose through the maze makes me what I am. I am not only a thing, but also a way of being—one of many ways—and knowing the paths I have followed and the ones left to take will help me understand what I am becoming.

If a person did not have free will, how could he be held accountable for the bad things he did?

When all is said and done, this Existentialist precept resonates with me more than any other philosophy of life I know. The idea that life's meaning is not something to look for but something to create myself feels right to me. In fact, it seems absolutely essential.

But the main reason we keep ducking the responsibility of self-creation is that it is super scary. If I am the master of my fate and my fate does not turn out so well, I have no one to blame but myself.

Most of us have adopted a strategy to get along called satisficing, a term coined by the Nobel Prize winner Herbert Simon, one of the founders of the fields of organization theory and information processing. Simon wanted a word to describe not getting the very best option but one that was good enough. For things that don't matter critically, we make a choice that satisfies us and is deemed sufficient.

En fait, nous créons nos propres prisons. Celles-ci sont toujours à l´exacte dimension du regard que nous posons sur les situations auxquelles nous sommes confrontés.

O importante não é saber como aconteceu, mas, sim, sentir que o que aconteceu foi um evento importante. Esse evento se chama consciência. Tomar consciência foi a grande revolução que Rairu proporcionou às pessoas que estavam no mundo de baixo. Elas não sabiam que havia outra maneira de viver. Quando desejaram partir em busca desse novo mundo, puseram-se a caminho, e muitos conseguiram chegar até em cima, porém, outros não quiseram...

So I applied to medical school and received a scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University turned out to be a lucky choice. The faculty was scholarly and dedicated and accessible to students.

Reader's Bill of Rights 1. The right to not read 2. The right to skip pages 3. The right to not finish 4. The right to reread 5. The right to read anything 6. The right to escapism 7. The right to read anywhere 8. The right to browse 9. The right to read out loud 10. The right to not defend your tastes

The Reader's Bill of Rights: The right to not read… to skip pages… to not finish… to reread… to read anything… to escapism… to read anywhere… to browse… to read out loud… to not defend your tastes.

3. El derecho a no terminar un libro ¿El libro se nos cae de las manos? Que se caiga. La gran novela que se nos recite no es necesariamente más difícil que otra. No hay química. Pero ¿Cómo es posible que no le guste Stendhal? Es posible.