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68. How To Make Decisions

The Sam Ovens Podcast

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Second Order Consequences of Eating a Salad Versus a Burger

A decision like eating a salad sucks right now. I'd way rather eat a burger, right? But I think of is this good. What is this gonna do for my health? Good things. So that is second order consequences and don't think it's truncated just at second order It goes third fourth fifth six. It goes all the way downstream. You want to consider these things when you make a decision, but a decisionlike eating a salad  sucks right now.I won't lie like I eat salads every day It's not that fun. And my mind is always like trying to solve fixed fictional characters like fictional life problems more than it's trying to solve my own

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