I very much enjoyed the development of the answer by eliminating the less sensible ideas and methods, and the way that this caused an incremental telescoping toward what he wanted to say. In short, it mimicked the process of elimination, and a self help read featuring deductive logic was very refreshing.
>But a man who procrastinates in his CHOOSING will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.
This hit close to home. Tough decisions are not easy to make, but waiting and thinking too long certainly has disadvantages. Often, ime, hindsight is the only entity that knows the correct choice. I was a floater early on and, at times, find myself wishing I had swam instead. Anyhow, I had never read this before, but it goes right up there with the Desiderata[0], imo.
“But beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life.”
“I don’t mean that we can’t BE firemen, bankers, or doctors— but that we must make the goal conform to the individual, rather than make the individual conform to the goal.“
>But a man who procrastinates in his CHOOSING will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.
This hit close to home. Tough decisions are not easy to make, but waiting and thinking too long certainly has disadvantages. Often, ime, hindsight is the only entity that knows the correct choice. I was a floater early on and, at times, find myself wishing I had swam instead. Anyhow, I had never read this before, but it goes right up there with the Desiderata[0], imo.
>0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desiderata