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How To Make Every Decision A Better Choice
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How To Make Every Decision A Better Choice
Every decision you make is a choice and every choice has consequences. I know this sound a little metaphysical and maybe, even, a little deeper in terms of philosophical content than I intend it to be. Because I spent three long years in a world of neuroscientists and military personnel that have been trained to function impeccably under immense pressure, as I researched and wrote The Sniper Mind, I’ve learnt that everything we think arises from what we feel which stems from the sensations we experience.
Our journey into whatever greatness our personal narrative implies starts from the electrical activity of axons subjected to a sensory load that compels an electrochemical discharge to take place between them and ends up in actions in the physical world that have very real consequences.
This changes everything. Because no decision ever takes place in a vacuum it means that everything we do follows on from what we have done and everything we do determines what we will do. This causal chain of decision making and actions is never quite as linear as we might think it should be. Nevertheless it is linked to a degree that it makes a mockery of ‘Free Will’ in its classical sense. I, writing this right now, for…
