Autopilot

How many conscious decisions do we take on any given day? If I eliminate those about fashion and food, I am surprised by how few in number they are. And I have found that the few I do make are more likley to be about work improvements, but rarely are they about my own personal life.

It is amazing how much time we spend daily on autopilot, doing quotidian things. But those precious few conscious decisions we take over the span of our life time are the ones that influence our life course.

The psychologist, Roy Baumeister, explains with the perfect analogy. When driving, we spend 95% of our time going straight, but it is the turns that we take which determine where we end up.

road-turn

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