# Choices (MoC) ## Notes <!-- QueryToSerialize: LIST FROM #choices AND !#type/quote AND !#type/creation/quote WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> <!-- SerializedQuery: LIST FROM #choices AND !#type/quote AND !#type/creation/quote WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> - [[Career choices - A Story about Alignment and Cohesion]] - [[Choice overload]] - [[Choisir, c'est renoncer]] - [[Choosing is refusing]] - [[Choosing means inviting life]] - [[Decision avoidance is refusing to grow out of fear]] - [[Decisional balance]] - [[Decoy effect]] - [[Factor in the time and energy required to get value out of what you buy]] - [[Gravity problems]] - [[Gut feeling]] - [[Hick's Law]] - [[Indecision is a decision]] - [[It's later than you think (Article)]] - [[Love is a choice]] - [[Net negatives]] - [[Opportunity cost]] - [[Pick your poison]] - [[The parable of the second arrow]] - [[The Paradox of choice]] - [[There is a choice between not doing and feeling bad and doing and maybe failing]] - [[To choose is to renounce]] - [[You cannot choose well if you choose only using your rational mind]] - [[You won't decide how you feel about the decision until the decision is made]] - [[Your direction is more important than your speed]] - [[Your habits and routines make you (Article)]] <!-- SerializedQuery END --> ## Quotes <!-- QueryToSerialize: LIST FROM #choices AND (#type/quote OR #type/creation/quote) WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> <!-- SerializedQuery: LIST FROM #choices AND (#type/quote OR #type/creation/quote) WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> - [[All of my best decisions, in business and in life, have been made with heart, intuition, guts. Not analysis]] - [[Bootstrapping a business means saying no to the non-essential things. Your resources are limited, so you have to prioritize the actions and choices that have the most impact]] - [[Don't let yourself get distracted. Keep following your path]] - [[Every day, born again. And I choose you, all over again]] - [[Everyone thinks they know how we should be living. They want us to conform and try to influence us consciously or not. But no one knows how life should be lived, whether it's their own or someone else's]] - [[For things to change, you have to change. For things to get better, you have to get better. The solution is always within reach. You just have to decide]] - [[Freedom is not about doing what you want. It is about not doing what you do not want to]] - [[Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life]] - [[If you want to make progress, then limit your options]] - [[In life, we can’t always control the first arrow. However, the second arrow is our reaction to the first. The second arrow is optional]] - [[It is a lot better to walk alone than with a crowd going in the wrong direction]] - [[It's never too late to explore a new path in life, to start a new journey]] - [[It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future]] - [[Key decisions are rare in a lifetime. Most decisions make a few ripples at worst (the long tail), while the key decisions are like tsunamis]] - [[Learning to choose is hard. Learning to choose well is harder. And learning to choose well in a world of unlimited possibilities is harder still, perhaps too hard]] - [[Life is a combinatorially explosive decision tree]] - [[Life is ten percent what happens to you, and ninety percent how you respond to it]] - [[Listen to your heart, go where it guides you and you shall be happy]] - [[Listen to your soul. You're the only one able to decipher it. If you don't, you risk living someone else's life]] - [[Make success the only option and your mind will give you no choice but to achieve it]] - [[May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears]] - [[Most people are unable to choose their destiny, let alone fight for it]] - [[No one is too busy, it's only a matter of priorities]] - [[Our existence depends on our choices. And our choices create an infinity of different worlds]] - [[Our perceptions make up our reality. But it's up to us to change those, and see things in a different light]] - [[Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional]] - [[Quit everything until you find something that you just cannot quit]] - [[Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make big choices in life]] - [[Start from wherever you are. That's fine, you're not late]] - [[The best decisions have little to no immediate payoff. The best choices compound. Most of the benefits come at the end, not the beginning. The more patient you are, the bigger the payoff]] - [[The fact that some choice is good doesn’t necessarily mean that more choice is better]] - [[The more options you have, the less likely you’ll choose any of them, and the less satisfied you'll be with your choice]] - [[The most dangerous thing is not making enough money. It's spending the money you have on the wrong things]] - [[The present holds infinity in itself]] - [[There's no point in making a good choice poorly]] - [[Time is the only currency you spend, without ever knowing your balance. Use it wisely]] - [[Time is what we want most, but what we use worst]] - [[To satisfice is to settle for something that is good enough and not worry about the possibility that there might be something better]] - [[Unfortunately, the proliferation of choice in our lives robs us of the opportunity to decide for ourselves just how important any given decision is]] - [[What limits your choice is understanding. A wise spirit always has fewer choices than a foolish one]] - [[What you do is more important than how you do it]] - [[When two roads lead to ruin, wisdom builds a third way]] - [[Where your heart lies, your treasure lies. Listen to it and follow it. Enjoy the journey]] - [[With all else being equal, take the road most documented]] - [[You always have a choice. To be a victim or to take responsibility for your life and show appreciation for everything you have. You get to choose how to live your life]] - [[You are what you practice. Your identity isn't fixed. You can become a better or worse person at any time. It's up to you. Make the right choices]] - [[You can choose to look at the world as a victim or as a hero. It's a choice]] - [[You can't solve a problem you're not willing to have]] - [[You don't have to know every step, just ask yourself. What is my next best step]] <!-- SerializedQuery END -->