Give your past, present and future selves influence in proportion to what each has earned. Which one of you is working with the most reliable information — about you and nobody else?
decisions
Live by the schedule as a gift to yourself. Deferring to it will take many high-stakes, high-guilt decisions out of your day on a daily basis.
Study Hacks » The Need for a Deeper Vocabulary of Career Aspiration
Students tend to place too much importance on the specifics of a job, as if there was a specific knowledge work pursuit hardwired in their genes.
Study Hacks » The Need for a Deeper Vocabulary of Career Aspiration
Life is, to some extent, an extended dialogue w/ your future self about how exactly you are going to let yourself down over the coming years
Listen to your friends, by all means, but not to the conclusions they’ve drawn; those are about them. […] Listen instead to the reasons your friends felt and concluded what they did, and use them to inform your decisions.
Making a choice and trying it is an important career skill. And choosing something practical, that people get paid well for, is an important life skill.
How Do You Make Life-Changing Decisions? | RyanHoliday.net
Books. Books. Books. People have been doing [whatever it is your deciding about] for a while now. They’ve been moving West, leaving school, investing their savings, getting dumped or filing for divorce, starting businesses, quitting their jobs, fighting, dying and fucking for thousands of years. This is all written down, often in the first person. Read it. Stop pretending you’re breaking new ground.
The most adult decisions in your life are ones that put severe limits on other possibilities.
For a single person, thinking something through marks the end of the reasoning process; it becomes habit. But that gets the married (or life-partnered) person only halfway through at best.
If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions; but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial.
Regrets of the Typical American. And I like this bit from the abstract of the study: “inaction regrets lasted longer than action regrets”.
Marginal Revolution: Advice for planning a wedding
What Are You Going to Do With That? – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education
The world is much larger than you can imagine right now. Which means, you are much larger than you can imagine.
What Are You Going to Do With That? – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Akrasia – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“The state of acting against one’s better judgment.” See also phronesis.
This is the Question, Charles Darwin writes at the top of the page. Each half of the page is a list brainstorming his two options with Emma Wedgewood:
To Marry…
Children — (if it Please God) — Constant companion, (& friend in old age) who will feel interested in one, — object to be beloved & played with. — —better than a dog anyhow. — Home, & someone to take care of house — Charms of music & female chit-chat. — These things good for one’s health. — Forced to visit & receive relations but terrible loss of time. —
My God, it is intolerable to think of spending ones whole life, like a neuter bee, working, working, & nothing after all. — No, no won’t do. — Imagine living all one’s day solitarily in smoky dirty London House. — Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music perhaps — Compare this vision with the dingy reality of Grt. Marlbro’ St.
or Not Marry?
No children, (no second life), no one to care for one in old age.— What is the use of working without sympathy from near & dear friends—who are near & dear friends to the old, except relatives
Freedom to go where one liked — choice of Society & little of it. — Conversation of clever men at clubs — Not forced to visit relatives, & to bend in every trifle. — to have the expense & anxiety of children — perhaps quarelling — Loss of time. — cannot read in the Evenings — fatness & idleness — Anxiety & responsibility — less money for books &c — if many children forced to gain one’s bread. — (But then it is very bad for ones health to work too much)
Perhaps my wife wont like London; then the sentence is banishment & degradation into indolent, idle fool —
The final result:
Marry — Marry — Marry. Q.E.D.
He also goes on to wrestle with the question of marrying sooner vs. later. (via)
See also: lay it all out where you can look at it.