Just 3 Quotes: Decision
07.19.2021
3 quotes from 3 books. Sent weekly.
Enjoy!
—Mark
“Pete Carroll was a victim of our tendency to equate the quality of a decision with the quality of its outcome. Poker players have a word for this: ‘resulting.’ When I started playing poker, more experienced players warned me about the dangers of resulting, cautioning me to resist the temptation to change my strategy just because a few hands didn't turn out well in the short run.”
—Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts, by Annie Duke (2018)
“Freedom? That’s easy. It’s in your choices. Happiness? That’s easy. It’s in your choices. Respect of your peers? That too is in the choices you make. And all of that is right in front of you. No need to take the long way to get there.“
—The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living, by Ryan Holiday (2016)
“What we'll want in the future depends on the choices we make today. By the time you go to sleep, you will have made it either a little bit harder or a little bit easier to want something tomorrow—for you and for someone else.”
—Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life, by Luke Burgis (2021)