Daniel AndrlikNov 25, 2022

The majority of the time, humans don’t make rational decisions. It’s not in our nature. Instead, we make emotional decisions, or decisions based on shared myths, and then rationalize those decisions afterwards.

This is not an excuse to not think through your choices. It’s a warning to examine your assumptions.

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@andrlik “Where did all these sages get the idea that a person needs some normal and reasonable, some virtuous wanting? A person needs only independent wanting, whatever this independence may cost, wherever it may lead. This wanting only the devil knows. He wants his own way, and if he does not have the means he will invent destruction and chaos. He will invent all kinds of suffering and still have his own way. He will launch a curse upon the world.” Dostoevsky, notes from the underground
Nov 25, 2022 at 8:32pmWeb