Name: 【TED】Ruth Chang: How to make hard choices (How to make hard choices | Ruth Chang)
Uploaded: 2014-07-08T16:50:18.000Z
Duration: 14 min 42 s
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The imperative

Think of a hard choice you'll face in the near future.

or places to live -- the city or the country --

you could marry Betty or you could marry Lolita.

Or it might be a choice about whether to have children,

to have an ailing parent move in with you,

Or whether to donate your life's savings to charity.

Chances are, the hard choice you thought of

But I think we've misunderstood hard choices

one alternative is better than the other.

the other alternative is better in other ways,

and neither is better than the other overall.

We shouldn't think that all hard choices are big.

Let's say you're deciding what to have for breakfast.

You could have high fiber bran cereal or a chocolate donut.

but neither is better than the other overall,

may make big hard choices seem less intractable.

After all, we manage to figure  out what to have for breakfast,

or uproot for the new job in the country.

We also shouldn't think that hard choices are hard

But I came from a modest immigrant family

was having a pork tongue and jelly sandwich

sitting around in armchairs just thinking,

well, that struck me as the height  of extravagance and frivolity.

and I tried my best to think of the reasons

If only God or Netflix would send me a DVD

of my two possible future careers, I'd be set.

and because I couldn't figure out which was better,

I did what many of us do in hard choices:

and I can tell you that fear of the unknown,

It's a mistake to think that in hard choices,one alternative really is better than the other,

and since we don't know which, we might as well

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【TED】Ruth Chang: How to make hard choices (How to make hard choices | Ruth Chang)

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