교육봉사 끝나고 집 가는 버스 안, 보석같은 테드 강연을 발견해서 공유! 시간이 없을 경우 아래 내용을 읽어보면 시간을 내서 보게 될 듯. 지금의 나와 소름 돋을 만큼 비슷한 고민을 하고 소름 돋을 만큼 비슷한 방법으로 선택을 했던 분이 말씀하셔서 그런지 더 와 닿는다. 우리는 어떻게 선택해야할까. When I graduated from college, I couldn’t decide between two careers, philosophy and law. I really loved philosophy, but I came from a modest immigrant family. So I got out my yellow pad, I drew a line down the middle, and I tried my best to think of the reasons for and against each alternative. I remember thinking to myself, if only I knew what my life in each career would be like. I’d be set. I’d compare them side by side, I’d see that one was better, and the choice would be easy. But because I couldn’t figure out which was better, I did what many of us do in hard choices. I took the safest option. Fear of being an unemployed philosopher led me to become a lawyer, and as I discovered, lawyering didn’t quite fit. It wasn’t who I was. So now I’m a philosopher, and I study hard choices, and I can tell you that fear of the unknown rests on a misconception of them. It’s a mistake to think that in hard choices, one alternative really is better than the other, but we’re too stupid to know which, and since we don’t know which, we might as well take the least risky option. Even taking two alternatives side by side with full information, a choice can still be hard. ☆Hard choices are hard not because of us or our ignorance. They’re hard because there is NO best option.☆ When we choose between options that are on a par, we can do something really rather remarkable. We can put our very selves behind an option. Here’s where I stand. Here’s who I am. I am for banking. I am for chocolate donuts. This response is supported by reasons created by us. When we create reasons for ourselves to become this kind of person rather than that, we wholeheartedly become the people that we are. You might say that we become the authors of our own lives. So when we face hard choices, we shouldn’t beat our head against a wall trying to figure out which alternative is better. There is no best alternative. Instead of looking for reasons out there, we should be looking for reasons in here. Who am I to be? From TED: How to Make Hard Choices - Ruth Chang ted/talks/ruth_chang_how_to_make_hard_choices
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