When are decisions triggered in the subconscious minds of children?
- I’m pretty sure I just made the world a better place (and it only cost me $4).
- What am I not stepping into and why?
- “Someday” and “never” have the same numerical value in that they both equal zero … and other highlights from “Decide.”
- Decisions: The School Uniform and Releasing Trapped Energy
- The big decisions will help guide the smaller decisions
- That thing you think is going to happen might not happen.
- When you change your mind, you change your mind
- The tiny little secret of the tipping point
- Relief
- When are decisions triggered in the subconscious minds of children?
- Give a Voice to Your Truth and a Truth to Your Voice
- What if you just don’t have the capacity to decide? What if you don’t have a prefrontal cortex? What if you’re, like, a teenager.
- “Wait, I take that back.” Are our decisions reversible?
- Dictatorship or democracy? Which is better for decision-making?
- In a back alley brawl, “Decide” is going to win out over “Hope.”
- Decisions Beget Decisions
- What if the “primary” decisions became the “secondary” decisions?
- Simple but not easy
- Not Simple and Not Easy
- I can’t, uh, decide! Which cover for the “Decide” book!?
- If you build it, they will come. What if you decide? Will they come, too?
- My idea of a good time
- Decision-making, belief, and behavioral biases
- See, Feel, Know | Mind, Heart, Gut
The good news and the bad news: they’re triggered all the time.
As an adult, I’m very conscious of the fact that memories are being recorded (and tiny decisions being made) all the time in my kids–and all kids … and all people for that matter.
What if you had to create your book cover before your book?
The thing is: you don’t know which ones are going to stick.
This is an excerpt from a chapter of the upcoming book “Decide,” out October 17, 2018. You know when Star Wars released prequels after the other movies? This is like that. Decide comes before Every Single Day.
You can go to a lot of trouble to make it all a big deal to try to force the memory, that important moment, but the truth is, it’s going to be what it’s going to be.
As much as I think it’d be wonderful if my son went to the University of Groningen, I have little influence as to what will happen in his future. Well, I have some influence, but it’s a bit like herding jellyfish: you don’t want to touch them and they’re just so squishy.
Like herding jellyfish: you don’t want to touch them and they’re just so squishy.
But some things can stick more than others.
Here’s a video from the pre-week festivities where the older students welcome the first-year students and show off their student clubs (see the rowing club up above in the second float?) to entice them to join. Let’s just say that Groningen is a fun student town. Compare this with the photo of the actual university below.
He might remember the thump-your-heart-bass-beat of the bouncing student float. Whereas I might remember the Harry Potter-esque university building.
Then again, it might be reversed.
Who knows.
That’s the beauty of the triggering of the decision-making process. We can think we have some influence, but it might go completely in another direction.
The good news? That’s actually good news. If we could predict everything, what fun would that be?
Could this be the university he attends? [Groningen, The Netherlands]
