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🗓️ 10 September 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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0:00.0 | not deciding is still a path. |
0:02.2 | We want the idea that I'm waiting to make a decision |
0:06.2 | is keeping me from the risk. |
0:09.8 | When I would say it's one of the riskiest ways to live because then we always have this |
0:14.7 | regret the sense that our fear ran us not our courage. Welcome to Conversations with Dr. Jennifer, a collection of interviews on the topics of relationships, sexuality, and more, all featuring Dr. Finlayson Fife. |
0:37.0 | Hi everybody I'm I'm just going to jump in as usual and just kind of give you some |
0:49.7 | thoughts about this idea of indecision and what our difficulty is as human beings around choosing. |
1:00.0 | I'm referencing some of the thoughts of Oliver Berkman, it's B-U-R-K-E-M-A-N, and he just released a book, a new book, |
1:10.0 | he wrote a book called Time Management for Mortals, which I recommend, and also just released a book. |
1:18.0 | I just love his way of thinking about life and kind of one of his core ideas that I think is really valuable is the fact that we, to live well, we have to confront our finitude, right? |
1:31.0 | That we have to confront the fact that we are defined by the fact of finiteness, that we can |
1:39.8 | only choose one path at a time in life. |
1:43.5 | And every decision we make, including the decision |
1:48.3 | to not make a decision, right? |
1:49.6 | Every decision we make is at the same time, you know, that it's creating something by making a decision. |
1:56.5 | We are closing off multiple other paths at the same time. |
2:01.7 | And to live well, we have to take responsibility for this fact, whether or not we like it. |
2:10.0 | And I think because it can be so overwhelming to recognize that there is loss on either side of any decision that as soon as we make one choice, even if it's a very, very good choice, |
2:23.0 | we're saying no to lots of other decisions. |
2:25.4 | I just remember a client coming in. |
2:27.1 | She was living a good life. |
2:28.1 | She was happily married. |
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