ruth chang
How to make hard choices – tedsalonny 2014
understanding hard choices uncovers a hidden power each of us possesses
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there is no best alternative.. instead of looking for reasons out there.. we should be looking for reasons in here
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drifters allow the world to write the stories of their lives… via mechanisms of reward/punishment/fear…
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far from being sources of agony and dread… the reason that suggest correct/incorrect sometimes run out… it’s in the space of hard choices… where there is no reason for one or the other.. that we get to create the reason.. we get to create us
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find/follow Ruth:
Ruth Chang is a professor of philosophy at Rutgers University. She is known for her research on the incommensurability of values and on practical reason and normativity. She is also widely known for her work on ‘hard choices’ and decision-making, and her research has been the subject of radio, newspaper, and magazine articles in the United States, Brazil, Taiwan, Austria, Australia, Canada, Israel, Italy, and the United Kingdom. Her TED talk on the subject has had over 3 million views, and her ideas have been presented in popular venues such as The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, Cosmopolitan, Reader’s Digest, and Marie Claire.
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whimsy matters… making us.
in charge of the day.. as the day.
be you. 