In the comments on my last post, my friend Lisa asked me "I'm curious to know why you see yourself as a maker of bad decisions. A decision could be a good one, given all available data, even if the outcome isn't what you'd hoped for."
That's a good question. In truth, I very much like the person I am and the decisions I've made have made me the person I am, so I'm not sure I regret them.
At the same time, I linked to a "Bad Decision Dinosaur" comic where the dinosaur is cheering on Napoleon's Invasion of Russia. People know that Napoleon ended up invading Russia in the winter and that's how it ends up in snarky comics, but Napoleon started with Smolensk in August. The Russian army just kept retreating, and kept burning villages as it retreated to starve the French. The French had never seen this tactic before and were like "What the hell, Tsar Alexander?"
Arguably Napoleon's problem wasn't invading Russia in August, it was getting himself deeper and deeper and not knowing when to quit. Maybe that's where I meant to say my problem was.
I had dinner with my friend Cheyenne, who had read yesterday's post and felt like I wasn't really understanding de Becker's point about Intuition. As fear is, I think, going to be a theological point for me, (Katy the Wise and I have discussed whether it is the root of evil), I feel like I should reread de Becker's book. It's available on Kindle Unlimited, so now it's on my list.
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