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Decisions? Choices? Alternatives? Too little information? Too much information? Just how do we decide? Facing a decision? Share here.
Similar Challenges @ similar times. Identical choices to face @ identical places. Everything from what college major to choose; to when, if, & to whom you should marry; to have kids? Yes/no? How do I prepare for a future when I don't get anything -- but old? We all face similar challenges; all the time; every day of our lives. Why not share? Here!
TED has 14 talks on how to make Good Decisions. So far, I've seen talks that cover issues with marketing, healthcare, and major economic decisions involving how to improve life for all people everywhere.
If you had 50 Billion dollars, what global problems would you solve first? Economic Analysis gives a surprising set of priorities. And Global Warming is way down the list as far as "Bang for the Buck" is concerned.
Dan Gilbert says that YES we CAN synthesize our own happiness and we do so every day inside our own brains. And drugs have nothing to do with it. Also Professor Gilbert gives a more complex talk on why we make bad decisions. It would seem that we can blame evolution for that one.
Choices are hard to make. Important choices can be terrifying. We've all felt the same way when we had to choose & then face up to unintended consequences in Life! Choices-in-life? We all face 'em. Share here.
Amy Winn
Jun 15 2013: So that is where I am today. I need to decide if I can withstand yet another very invasive surgical procedure, and two months of these horrible hard painful tubes sticking out of my face. The anxiety alone with them in caused me to cry daily and at one point I even had a knife in my hand wanting to cut them out myself. At this point, when the surgeon suggested this new plan, I broke down and he (like Lizannne) recommended counseling in order to gain some strength before pursuing such a long term stressful situation. The thought of waking up after the surgery and seeing these tubes again may just be more than I am willing to take. I am so tired and I really have tried so hard, but at this point I wonder if it is just god's will that this is what is to be. I have been fighting for ten years now, through 14 surgeries and have been such a burden to my husband and my mother (who should be enjoying her golden years). I will begin making phone calls on Monday to some counseling services, if for no other reason to just get some feedback about whether or not this is truly my decision to make. I don't wan't people to say I didn't do my best. But I think I am way past what my best is at this point. Lizanne, you mentioned a chat with you - I don't know how to do that. Thanks so much to both of you.
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Jun 15 2013: Amy, I am sending you zillions of positive vibes right now!!!!!
Simply click on my profile, and on the right, you'll see in red, 'Send Lizane Hennessey an e-mail', which will come directly into my inbox.
Amy, what I wouldn't give to come over for that cup of coffee right now!!
Sounds to me like you're having trouble seeing the forest for the trees right now! I'd be more than happy to lend an 'ear' and although it's a virtual one, it's attached to flesh and blood, and I would really like to talk further with you about all this!!
Amy Winn
Jun 15 2013: Lizanne: Caught them!!!! Thanks!!!!!
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Jun 15 2013: Hey, we're online at the same time! That's almost as good as having a coffee together!!
I edited my post just now, while you were replying to it, I think!
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Jun 15 2013: Dear Amy: Hang in there!! Never give up!!
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Janine's talk is very inspiring and I hope it can be helpful to you
Sending you a big hug ❤Jun 9 2013: If I had 50 billion dollars what global problem would I solve first? None. Money cannot solve problems. The intelligent use of money solves problems, maybe. I do not possess such knowledge alone.
Sean Brother
Jun 27 2013: Information is never too much stuff, the only thing is, in my opinion, that we need to know is how to classify it, filter it, and give priority to those results obtained that may most interest us
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Huey Freeman
Jun 24 2013: Everyone makes "higher" cognitive problem solving decisions with the prefrontal cortex (front of the brain) which receives information from throughout the body and nervous system. We make decisions based on past memories and experiences, and these experiences shape and influence how our nervous system functions. This is called "Interpersonal Neurobiology". This goes to say that relationships we share from birth and all through life, influence the way the nervous system functions, and which certain genes are expressed more than others, which ultimately emerges into our behaviours, reward systems, how we interact with others, make complex decisions, problem solve, and our capability for healthy social skills.
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Understanding this, Integration is what is key to a healthier brain, healthier relationships, and of course "good decision making". Integration is; Honouring our differences, but linking the differentiated parts together. This is key not only for a healthy brain, and relationships, but also our mindset, and the more Integration, the more rational decisions can be permitted to emerge.
Watch Dr. Daniel Siegal on TEDTalks, he goes into this in much more depth.
Jun 24 2013: Thank you so much for the recommendation, but "Houston, we have a problem!".
I searched for Dr. Daniel Siegal's video on TED & TEDtalks and got nothing. Doesn't mean it isn't there. What it means is that my browser can't make this work! Blast it!
If you could post here again and link to the video on TED, that always helps.
If you really like this talk, count it as one of your favorites on your profile. That way you can always reference it in any post you give (i.e. "Please see my profile for the link." ).
Sometimes if I search for a video and can't find it. I look again a day or two later and there it will be. So if I don't hear from you, I will search again.
Huey Freeman
Jun 24 2013: yea sorry about that it was on TEDxBlue,
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Anyways thats the link on youtube, he's brilliant really, you'll enjoy it.
Jun 24 2013: I watched the full video you recommended (I watched the last 2/3 of the video 3 times to make sure I got it!). I also started another video, but it is past my bedtime. So I keep your link & watch again tomorrow. Dan Siegal is brilliant. You can really tell that he's trained as a dancer/choreographer. His gestures are fluid, expressive, and consistent, like a spoken language of their own. His voice has a measured timbre such that the intonation itself contains additional meaning. And it isn't hard at all to intuitively feel the content of his understanding. I'll bet he can be living hell on graduate students. True Artists have that characteristic.
Huey Freeman, we've just met and you know me so very well! Thank you.
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You are right!
This is because we have:
(1) "Too little information " on valid happiness.
(2) "Too much information" on invalid (harmful) happiness.
(from Be Happy Validly!)Jun 16 2013: I don't recall seeing a TED comment site so dominated by one member as this one is by Juan Valdez. Is he a moderator or just overflowing with enthusiasm? For me it is distressing. We are limited to characters in our remarks, shouldn't individual contributors be limited in their posts?
So it is in this mood of slight annoyance that I enter my 2nd comment.
Where on earth is the importance of evaluating our own decision process in public? Any focus on each of us almost always results in trivial opinions that are more appropriate for the other social media chat and video arenas.
It is our group decisions, our national and global ones that need attention.
Sometimes TED becomes a little too psychoanalytical, speakers telling us the significance of body gestures, building and maintaining confidence, achieving inner happiness, and presumably other self-help rhetoric that I must have missed.
My friends, and assuredly TED has magnificently created an ambiance of camaraderie, let us join in trying to persuade TED to prevent a single member from excessive comments, except the moderator of the topic; let us express our preference for new knowledge that will benefit our societies rather than silly personal advice.
I'm not referring to those speakers who relate their overcoming huge challenges, for those are truly inspiring and encouraging with broad impact.
I suggest that the best advice for personal decision-making comes from our grandmothers for it is they who have monitored the events of everyone in the family. Psychologists are strangers, I refrain from using charlatans, who know nothing about us and waste our time as they drag us back to age zero. TED's objective is sharing ideas that can improve the world, I think we all know the 'Me' generation, added very little to that endeavour.
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Jun 13 2013: I feel its more about filtering out the unimportant ones
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Jun 13 2013: Yeah! Very few of the decisions I make every day are important. Most are generally trivial. They don't mean much to anyone but me!
But for those few important decisions, -- you stay awake at night thinking and thinking. Critical decisions are tough!Jun 10 2013: Simply put, we shouldn't beat ourselves up over every decision that we make that doesn't turn out to be the right one or hat makes us worry that we could have made a better decision.
Yes, we have a fairly short time in this earth and yes, we do have quite a substantial amount if decisions to make, but that's just all the more reason to not get too upset about mistakes made and to not get too overwhelmed about decisions that need to be made. Whether it is deciding on what to major in college or picking what color swim suit to get, stressing too much about it is just unnecessary anxiety.
Jun 10 2013: I agree. Life is too short for that!
We all need to learn how to make our own happiness. And once we have done that, we just need to do it!Jun 10 2013: Always trust what feels right to you. If it is not clear than you should try to find an alternative or abandon whatever is putting in a position that you must make a decision. If you cannot make a clear decision then you might not be ready for any results that might transpire from it and it couldl make you unhappy. Like choosing a college major, maybe you need a year to reevaluate what you want to do.
Jun 10 2013: Raymond, your profile identifies you as a man of distinction. It is a pleasure to make your acquaintance.
"Always trust what feels right to you." That's the best thing I've heard on TED in a while!!
I cannot remember what TED talk it was that brought this up, but I am reasonably sure it was one of the ten talks by men listed above. One of the bald guys, I think (I am going bald so there may be a bias there). But what was said, was something I have always known. Apparently, there is a significant amount of scientific research that proves your statement - "Always trust what feels right to you."
Or more importantly: "Always AVOID what does NOT feel right to you!" That statement has two parts to it. And it's the part about NOT doing something that feels wrong . . . that (I believe) can save your life.Jun 10 2013: Found this appropriate:
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Jun 10 2013: Hahaha, Juan, you are forgiven for flooding my inbox! It was more a tiny leak than a flood, though. ;)
I know exactly what you mean about the "Vulcan Mind Meld" experience. I get it often here. A case of like-minds, of synchronicity. More proof of how interconnected we are! It's not just you!!Jun 10 2013: I don't know... you'd be surprised how many sci-fi geeks like us are out there, Juan! I knew exactly what you meant. George called it 'the force', and he wasn't wrong.
Sounds like an excellent plan, Juan. I am all for it!
Jun 10 2013: What a great privilege -- to know that I am so well supervised here on TED! That may sound like a sarcastic statement, except for the FACTS! Fact is, if you are doing or learning something that is important, you appreciate 'supervision.' Here is an example:
If you are learning to be a fireman, you have to get it RIGHT. If you don't, you die. And others may die with you. Therefore, you get the crap kicked out of you in training. Because when the chips are down, you have one chance and one chance only to get it RIGHT! So get it RIGHT! And Right the FIRST time! Doctors, soldiers, paramedics, adventure sportsmen, ICU nurses; explorers -- they all know exactly what I am talking about here.
I find sometimes that I think of TED that way . . . I wonder why? But I am motivated to get it right!Jun 11 2013: Wow, I had not even considered this, Juan. Thank you for bringing it to my attention!
Making a mistake could cost lives, if you are a lifesaver. The list you mentioned are all enormous risk-takers, who not only risk their own lives but others as well, if they should make a mistake. The tolerance is zero.
Motivation to get something right, understanding material, delving into oneself for questions and answers, that's what binds us all!
Jun 11 2013: To your astute comments, I shall respond in a way that I have not -- since the 1970's:
"Right On!"Jun 10 2013: Sometimes too much information leads to confusion and too many choices could fuel indecision.
So, in making decisions, information is good; but only helpful information, the sort that empowers, is good.
And you gotta decide; waiting for some perfect time or moment or condition would probably keep one waiting till the 90th birthday.Jun 9 2013: Making a decision,choice from many alternative is not difficult when a person makes decisions based on what he actually loves to do. But, as we human beings are easily influenced by the external factors, like the pressure of peers, pressure of society. We are more concerned about our peers, and the society, that , If i choose this or that what would my peers would say of what would the society feel about me. And sometimes the contradictory research reports of so called experts also creates confusion.Take for example. some times the researchers say coffee is good for health and sometimes say coffee is bad for health. And they keep on alternating their research.Jun 9 2013: Expand your education as broadly as possible. The more you know, the easier the decision. Too many rely on back-fence and diner chatter where most pretend to be informed in order to dominate conversations to appear wiser that they are.Jun 8 2013: I personallybelieve that one has to take responsibility for one's own decisions, good or bad. I feel that education plays a big role; the more information one has, perhaps the wiser the decision. I.E. if I had known more of basic psychology, perhaps I might not have made the most devastating choice in my life...my life's partner. Increased knowledge might have prevented me from becoming entangled with someone hving all the (hidden?) symptoms of psychosis. Without this knowledge, even the wisest among us are likely to fall prey. On the other hand, I think back a generation or two ago when one's professional choice was limited to what one's ancestors did. Was that not much easier, less time consuming and effective. After all, we had been well trained in this area from birth. Another important factor...decisions should NOT be made based wholly on selfish reasons, i.e. the so-called ruling/powerful plutocrats are so selfishly single-minded that they cannot grasp that after they have glomed up all that the rest of us give them (taxes), then what? Who will remain to feed their insatiable thirsts? Interesting dialog and ponderings.Jun 8 2013: The priority of the problems are different for each country in my opinion. For the Netherlands I'd say the first priority should be to take control of overhead costs Not by budget cuts but by creating a lean and mean government and by getting unemployed people back involved in society. Unemployment rates are incredibly high but we are short on teachers, nurses and affordable daycare so re-structuring the system and empower people to take responsibility for society as a whole would be a tremendous step forward.
Then I'd say education because innovation becomes increasingly important so instead of numbing their brains and teaching them that asking questions or making mistakes is a bad thing, it's time we teach them how to be creative, collaborate and live with respect for themselves and others.
Healthcare would be next. I still find it odd that I can rent a great Hotel room for 100 euros, but a hospital bed costs me 200 euro's a night?... The hotel room comes with room service but a nurse costs extra... hmmm
So we'll have 50B left which I suggest we invest in innovation centers. Much to gain from further developing nano technology, dna manipulation etc. Imagine how much time you can spend on creative arts, space travel or just socializing when we all have a 3d printer that can print anything from food to your personally designed transportation by using nano technology and the elements as a cardridge. That would leave 95% of the planet unemployed, but nobody hungry or homeless. But now I'm getting carried away. ;-)Jun 7 2013: I chose accordingly to the laws of physics. This pretty much narrows it down.
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Jun 7 2013: On my own with my decisions, yes, but only in those universes where my wife allows it.
Jun 7 2013: Does your wife know my wife? That sounds really familiar to me! And the older I get, the better it all sounds to me. Just do what she says. That's the secret to a happy marriage. And if you want to do something else, make an excuse and go do it.Jun 30 2013: Sadly Juan, 50 billion wouldn't even get us started. :-) I think a large portion of the choices we make every day are the wrong ones, yet we lie to ourselves or ignore the consequences because of the innate propensity we humans have to be governed by our emotions or personal motives. I've made several bad choices already this morning. I took the toll road instead of side roads to work because it was faster instead of saving money, I ate that egg mcmuffin, hashbrown and OJ instead of the bagel, etc. Unfortunatley, this applies to our national-level decision-makers as well. Instead of focusing on issues objectively, politicians are influenced by their party affiliation and voters to make decisions that may not always be the "right" decision.
Jul 2 2013: Well said. I could not have said it better myself.Jun 29 2013: That's a good question and fascinating talks related to it:
My simplistic rule is - good or bad. Is my decision good or bad? There's a flip to it - good for whom? For what? it may be dfificult to answer as life is complicated. the world is changing fast, History will judge whether this decision is good, either history in my closest family, in the community, and globally. Personally, I have to say that it's difficult to make decisions. To like something on facebook is one thing (a feeling that makes you like something) but if you analise why you like it and what the consequences may be, it's difficult.
"We should have preferences that lead us into one future over another. But when those preferences drive us too hard and too fast because we have overrated the difference between these futures, we are at risk. When our ambition is bounded, it leads us to work joyfully. When our ambition is unbounded, it leads us to lie, to cheat, to steal, to hurt others, to sacrifice things of real value. When our fears are bounded, we're prudent; we're cautious; we're thoughtful. When our fears are unbounded and overblown, we're reckless, and we're cowardly.
The lesson I want to leave you with from these data is that our longings and our worries are both to some degree overblown, because we have within us the capacity to manufacture the very commodity we are constantly chasing when we choose experience.
Thank you. "
I just think that when it comes to the "future" mentioned in this talk, the preference should be simple - happiness for everybody, possibilities, individualism. And, to add a point that I've made here before - all that without hurting anybody.
I liked all the talks in some way and the thing I would like to point out is this - paradigm. It influences the choice.
Jun 29 2013: Thanks to Mary M., as demonstrated below; I found the talk.
Jul 1 2013: Oh Juan, Juan.......she was quoting from this TED talk:
How could you not have known that?
Don't you memorize the talks like the rest of us to quote from them at random?
So, go ahead, ask me how I found the talk..........because there is a super fast way.....I learned it from a TED staff member in one of our conversations last year.
Jul 1 2013: To quote you dear Mary M: "So, go ahead, ask me how I found the talk..........because there is a super fast way.....I learned it from a TED staff member . . . "
Please do share. I await this revelation, attendant to your divine wisdom! Please share.Jul 1 2013: Here is the link to the conversation hosted by a TED staff member.
She taught us that if you remember certain words from a talk, you can go to Google, and type the words you remember in between quotation marks, then type talk on ted.com after wards, and the TED talks containing these words will pop up.
This is what I typed on Google:
"The lesson I want to leave you with from these data is that our longings" talk on ted.com
And BINGO.......Dan Gilbert's talk comes up.
Isn't that a neat trick?
I have used it many times when looking for old talks, and also for helping other TEDsters find talks.
I wish the divine wisdom was mine.......but alas, it is just another idea from the great TED site.
Jul 1 2013: Quoting here: "I wish the divine wisdom was mine.......but alas, it is just another idea from the great TED site."
Mary, you have offered a very slight distinction; without a hint of a difference. And both TED, and all of us who remain, would suffer interminably w/o your divine presence & remarkable grace. And thank you. JVJul 2 2013: Well, I suppose that my presence and grace is a reflection of yours dear Juan.....and of so many others on here who indulge my whimsical ramblings....although at times I have been known to provide a link or two that are upbuilding and worthy of spreading.
From now on you will be able to help me carry the burden of additional knowledge and ideas of finding TED talks.........and you will pay it forward?
Have a beautiful week..............Cheers!!! (taps steaming coffee mug on computer....)
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Jul 2 2013: Shall pay it forward . . . willco. Git 'er done! Pay it Forward! Kevin Spacey. Mary, you are an inspiration to all. JVJun 29 2013: Follow the facts,follow your heart.
Jun 29 2013: I have two rules for that:
1) Know the facts; always give the facts priority -
2) Know your own heart; you can't make even a reasonable decision (much less an important one) w/o that!
3) Never let things get 'personal.' Save that for when it's dark; and you know it's totally safe.
Wait! That's 3? Well, who cares if I can't count.
Jun 30 2013: Hi Dear Juan Vldez:)lovely and humorous u are:)Jun 28 2013: if I had 50 billion dollars i'd be as rich as bill gates. i'd go buy my own island or continent or something and set up my own country where people could do what they want. that is my decision. now give me the money.
Jun 29 2013: If they gave you that much money, could you spare some for me? I need [at least a better] job.Jun 27 2013: Hi Juan. My comment was in reference to the original text vs. audio-video.
Jun 27 2013: Quote: First of all, here's what students think is going to happen. They think they're going to maybe come to like the picture they chose a little more than the one they left behind, but these are not statistically significant differences. It's a very small increase, and it doesn't much matter whether they were in the reversible or irreversible condition.
Wrong-o. Bad simulators. Because here's what's really happening. Both right before the swap and five days later, people who are stuck with that picture, who have no choice, who can never change their mind, like it a lot! And people who are deliberating -- "Should I return it? Have I gotten the right one? Maybe this isn't the good one? Maybe I left the good one?" -- have killed themselves. They don't like their picture, and in fact even after the opportunity to swap has expired, they still don't like their picture. Why? Because the reversible condition is not conducive to the synthesis of happiness. End Quote.
I think Dan Gilbert misspoke. The transcript matches the context. Please add your comment to the comments section that follows the video on the TED web site. I have heard that the Presenters (Professor Gilbert) do read the comments on their presentation. And occasionally they reply to comments. I do believe that Professor Gilbert will respond to your correction. Or you can email TEDJun 27 2013: In the paragraph that begins with "Wrong-o. ... Why? Because the reversible condition is not conducive to the synthesis of happiness." Please note that in the audio/video presentation, Dan Gilbert says IRREVERSIBLE condition
Jun 27 2013: I went back through my last 100 comments on TED & there was no "Wrong-o" comment from me. I may have deleted such a comment because it MIGHT have been construed as inappropriate. So, unfortunately, I am clue-less as to exactly what this might refer to.
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Jun 22 2013: Yes. That's it. Isn't 'choice' a decision on an action or outcome? If we 'choose' but take no action - see no alternate result, it's merely mental and verbal exercise, an impotent and generally useless activity. "I'm going to do this or that", but never do it. "I'm going to change this or that", but nothing changes. "I believe this or that", but our actions speak otherwise. Now the flip side is that we choose and change, then face the result. Often our 'change' falls short of the 'ideal' we originally had, or our 'choice' leads to a 'change' beyond our expectations. But it seems it does come down to the necessity of 'will'. If there is no will to affect the choice, then the 'choice' is moot. Cheers!
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Jun 22 2013: I wonder if choice comes down to 'will'. I can 'choose' something, it can make sense in my head, but do I really 'will' it to be so? If we, then, do not carry out our 'choice' to the end through our will, have we chosen?Jun 21 2013: I wrote a universal decision making app for Windows 8. Pleas give it a try
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http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/decision-making-wheel/33118f25-219f-4a19-9605-c721081d3680Jun 15 2013: Amy, I cannot imagine the kind of challenge you are facing right now. Even my imagination won't take me anywhere near the place where you must be -- to face such a challenging set of choices.
I offer you here my prayers, my best wishes, and my most sincere hopes. And I offer you more of same on behalf of my family. I really do. We will all keep you in our thoughts.
Late note: I lit a father's day candle for my Dad in church today. But Amy Winn got her share of prayer time as well. Prayer counts. Prayer matters. And although many do not thinks so or agree w/me . . . prayer can change things. I believe it Amy. I do.
If an Atheist/Agnostic wants to offer me an alternative to that, I'll listen. But to me, prayer beats hell out of a "Get Well Card." Cards & notes are very important to the suffering & those faced with difficult challenges. But a statement of unity & strength & solidarity with the suffering of even one other human being -- even by a prayer! That MUST have value in this world. And what you do or do not believe about god has very little to do with it in the end. We stand together when we join our thoughts and hearts together. And prayer plays a big role in that. It does.
But I'll leave room here for anyone who wishes to differ w/me on that opinion. I'd like to hear from 'ya.Jun 12 2013: I've spent the last decade trying to sustain the rumor that Donald Rumsfeld spent two years confinement at the federal maximum security prison in Butner North Carolina for obstruction of justice . . . or maybe I just want to start the rumor . . .
But the unknown/unknowns are always there. And dealing with those requires two things: 1) Vigilance, and 2) Courage. It is said that "Eternal Vigilance is the price of freedom." You just have to pay attention to protect yourself. That's the risk of the Unknown. And Courage is always part of every decision we make -- where we have to act upon incomplete or potentially inaccurate information.
And the most consistent observation I have made thus far is quite simple. Even an obviously BAD decision creating misery for everyone, iS often much preferable to making NO DECISION. The consequences of making a bad decision can often be corrected or repaired. But making no decision can destroy everything.Jun 10 2013: Sometimes too much information leads to confusion and too many choices could fuel indecision.
So, in making decisions, information is good; but only helpful information, the sort that empowers, is good.
And you gotta decide; waiting for some perfect time or moment or condition would probably keep one waiting till the 90th birthday.Jun 10 2013: Sometimes too much information leads to confusion and too many choices could fuel indecision.
So, in making decisions, information is good; but only helpful information, the sort that empowers, is good.
And you gotta decide; waiting for some perfect time or moment or condition would probably keep one waiting till the 90th birthday.Jun 9 2013: Juan,
if there's one thing that binds us all, it's that our lives are full of these paths we take, that have led us to this point in time. Our emotions often play a big role in choosing a path, sometimes a path is chosen for us, sometimes we leave the paths for what they are and just stay put.
A friend of mine, who is an inspirational speaker, once told me to "take advantage of your crossroads". Since then, the paths I thought were going straight ahead of me, possibly with a fork or two in them, are literally strewn with crossroads, each one as unknown and utterly exciting as the one previously.
As someone with really no concept of regret, my decision-making has always been pretty impulsive. Now, as a Mom, a wife, and an official grown-up, most decisions are done in the team, but those crossroads are always out there to explore., not just for me, but for all four of us.
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Jun 10 2013: Oh, the innocence of the classic film industry...! Life imitating art, imitating life. All the world's a stage.
This convo is related to some extent to Questions First's, "Why are we afraid to make mistakes"?
When the choices presented before us are too overwhelming, we can get flustered, worried about where that path may lead us, and fear takes over, clouding our judgement.
But I am convinced, if we allow fear to rule our decisions, we will get exactly nowhere.
Conscious decision-making, in full awareness of the consequences/benefits, and no regrets is how I decide to live.
All the best to you to, Juan!
Jun 10 2013: Thanks for the link. And thank you for your wonderful contributions to TED. TED is one of the most valued and valuable sources of information on the internet. And you should be quite proud to be part of that. I know that w/the right skill set, I would be very proud and even honored to contribute to TED. Thank you for helping make TED possible.
Amy Winn
Jun 14 2013: Hi Lizanne, your comment on making decisions caught my eye, as I am facing one right now. I have had extensive surgery to reconstruct my face after tumor removal. Unfortunately, my second nose was rejected, and it turned black and then fell off (this is not the bad part). So, a rib and the backs of my ears were removed to create a new nose, with a forehead flap used as replacement skin. The surgeries were painful and the recovery was long. Now here's the bad part, the scar tissue resulting from the new nose is blocking my airways. I feel like I am suffocating and wake up gasping for air everyday. As the scar tissue progresses, it will block my airway and I will either have a stoke of simply die in my sleep. I have had seven surgeries in an effort to create new airways (something that will prevent me from suffocating in my sleep), all to no avail. My face is collapsing and I am now faced with the great big decision to undergo yet another very extensive, very painful and long term treatment, or risk the chance of suffocation. (I remember a time long ago when my biggest decision was what flavor to have in my morning coffee. ) Like you, I am a mother and a wife, so I kind of feel obligated on this, and pressured by the family, (many surgery decisions were based on the premise that I owed it to my family) although I don't wish to go through with it. Seems like and easy answer - just do it right? ....on the other hand it will be extremely expensive and a burden to those taking care of me. Now the decision - I wonder if it is just god's plan for me, after all I did fight the good fight, undergoing a total of 14 surgeries, and chemotherapy. Should more be expected of me, or is this my decision to make. The path in front of me has a fork, and I don't like either direction. Is it my decision to move forward either way? It is confusing, and emotional and I have read your comments on many issues and would love to hear your comment on this one.Jun 15 2013: Amy, I just read your story, and am filled with all kinds of emotions about it!!!
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I can't help but think, there MUST be other options for you!!! Have you thought about or received a second opinion? Suffocating is NOT an option! Neither is more invasive surgery - at one point, your body and mind has taken all it can take! I have had multiple surgeries on my knee, and when I finally decided to let it go and accept it as it was, in the knowledge it would only get worse, I admit some people thought I had 'given up'. However, my condition was, and is, in no way life-threatening! I can manage with a broken knee, but my dear Amy, you need to be able to breathe!!!
Wow, on the other hand, it seems like you have made your decision, it's just a question of informing your family, who, naturally, are putting that pressure on you because they love you to pieces!
I see very clearly how this feels like the biggest fork in the road you'll ever encounter.
Have you thought about therapy, to work out what it is you really want? You remind me a lot of me - my decision-making is often influenced by others, especially when it concerns my own life... You spoke about being 'a burden', and that 'more should be expected of you'. Perhaps those external influences are clouding your own judgement? I can understand that! Like I say, your family wants you to be around, they are willing to do whatever it takes! I wonder, however, if they understand if YOU are willing to go that far...
It's a matter of weighing options, the pros and cons, talking openly about this with your family. Judging by what you've said, it sounds like you need support from your family to do what YOU feel is right. Only you can judge what your body can handle, and it's been through so much already...!
Which brings me back to other options...
Would the purpose of operation be to remove the scar tissue so you can breathe easier again?
I wonder if the scar tissue wouldn't just come back?
oops, out of characters...Jun 15 2013: Continued...!
About the scar tissue, that's the case with me knee - your body will want to fix and protect that part of itself, it really doesn't know or care about the fact that it's obstructing your breathing!!
Ok, so if it were removed, and you can breathe easily again, what are the options. What about a prosthetic nose, instead of more surgery to make a new one?
I can imagine how confusing this must be for you!!! My advice right now - make a list, on your own, by yourself. Reflect on what is MOST important to YOU. Write everything down, no editing! Purge your thoughts. If you want, you are welcome to share them with me (via private message, if you want!) I would really love to help you with this - although it is a decision only you can make, Amy, you are NOT alone in making it!!!
Much strength!
Amy Winn
Jun 15 2013: Hi Again Lizanne and Juan: First let me thank you both for the love and concern. As far as options let me assure you that I have really done my research on this. I have been to some of the very best plastic and reconstructive surgeons both on PA and NJ. I was rejected by the chief plastic surgeon of the University of Pennsylvania (Oren Friedman), because of the complicity of my case. First, there is the extensive scar tissue that we discussed, then there is the autoimmune factor which is a result of the chemo, then there is yet another factor called warm auto immune hemolytic anemia, which is an antibody that is in remission. The amount of antibiotics necessary for a surgical recovery could jeopardize my remission, and bring back the antibody, which may cause me to die. So although I did find some wonderful surgeons out there, none would take my case. I then saw a show on Discovery Health Network which focused on a surgeon by the name of McKay McKinnon who does complicated and risky surgeries that no other doctor will touch. I wrote to him and he agreed to see me, but he is in Chicago. So I packed my bags and went to Chicago in Feb. to meet with him. When he examined me, he found that the scar tissue has grown from the nose, through the sinuses and attached itself to my palet, causing the beginning of a frozen mouth and speech slurring. I returned to New Jersey and in March had a portion of my upper palet removed to free the tissue from taking over. I also had something called "trumpets" installed which went from the outer nose all the way to the throat. I had to feed myself with a catheter and the pain and stress was unbearable. They were removed five weeks ago, and within two weeks I suffered a 90% collapse of the sinus cavity and an immediate build up of scar tissue. That is where I am today. I need to figure out if I have the strength to put the trumpets back in for a period of 8 weeks - with pain, total isolation and no food, or stop the madness. pt. 2..Jun 9 2013: It can be difficult to distinguish between correct information and manipulation. I personally try to question all my beliefs and sourses of information.
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Alcatraz Cancelled
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Wasn't a big fan. JJ Abrams has a habit of making TV that isn't as clever as he thinks they are, and they suffer for it.


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By Claire Walla
To some, 15-year-old Rojdrefa Patterson is known as the girl who flips.
If you've been to a Pierson High School basketball games, you've probably seen it. In a black-and-red mini-skirt and knit top with the initials "PHS," Patterson flips not once, not twice, but several times in rapid succession down the length of the wooden court. Sometimes she ends her impromptu routines with the splits, which she sinks into effortlessly, the way anyone else might sink into a chair.
Of course, acrobatics are nothing new for high school cheerleading, a sport which has garnered a respectable reputation in the sports world in the last few years.
But Patterson's case is unique. Her talent comes not from cheer camp or gymnastics classes; she learned from watching YouTube clips, and by copying her Dad.
A native of the island of Jamaica — where gymnastics is a common form of physical education — Roj Patterson taught his daughter how to flip at a young age.
"The first time I tried to do a flip, I knocked my two front teeth out," Patterson said with a grin. "I was four."
Since then, Patterson has gone to Marine Park here in Sag Harbor to hone her skills. She's taught herself how to do a front handspring, a double back handspring, a triple toe touch and even a back tuck. (The latter she even taught to her recently acquired gymnastics coach, a retired Level Ten gymnast, who was once captain of the Empire State Games.)
Last year, Patterson's self-taught skills led her to victory at the annual Cheer for a Cure event held in Hampton Bays, where she walked away with Best Double Touch for the jumping sequence competition. Patterson recalled competing against girls who had had formal training.
By comparison, Patterson uses her 14-year-old brother as a spotter.
"One day, it was winter, and I was cold, but I was like: I don't care, I'm going to do something really stupid," Patterson remembered. Her brother had been spotting her as she attempted to complete a full back tuck, supporting her with his hand while in the air. "I told him to remove his hand… and I got it!"
Patterson came to Pierson as a freshman after graduating from Stella Maris in 2010. When she learned of the cheerleading team, she quickly got on board.
Again, she said inherent fearlessness lead the way.
"When I first started, I didn't know how to do a flip on the wooden floor," Patterson said. "So one day I just winged it, and I got it," she continued nonchalantly. (Patterson did, however, also admit to having crossed her heart before she took the leap.)
Patterson's self-taught acrobatics was something Anjela Krsikapa said she was shocked to discover.
At 25-years-old, Krsikapa is already a retired Level 10 gymnast (the highest possible ranking) and now teaches cheerleading and coaches gymnastics for the Ross School.
Krsikapa first saw "the girl who flips" when she went with her team to a Ross/Pierson basketball game last year. Although, it took her a year to figure out who she was.
While dining at Tapas in Bridgehampton recently, Krsikapa had a chance encounter with Patterson's mother (unbeknownst to her at the time), who spoke of her cheerleading daughter, and showed video on her camera phone of Patterson propelling her body across half-court.
"Oh my God, I've been looking for that girl!" Krsikapa recalled. "Her mother told me that, by some miracle, that girl was all self-taught — I called her the very next day."
Krsikapa said there is no one else like Patterson here on the East End. In fact, she said, it's almost serendipitous she and Patterson should find each other.
As it so happens, Krsikapa first learned how to flip by watching her parents, for whom gymnastics was a routine part of physical education, as kids growing up in Montenegro.
"There's a real lack of gymnastics out here," Krsikapa explained.
But since she's started the program at Ross, she said interest has been steadily increasing, adding that she's noticed "a real demand for it."
Krsikapa mostly works with younger kids who take gymnastics as an after-school activity and are still learning the basics. She said she's thrilled to have found Rojdrefa.
With Krsikapa's guidance, Patterson is learning how to do what she already does, but with proper form.
Patterson is essentially going back to basics, to learn the fundamentals of balance and form that Krsikapa said will prevent injuries in the future. She's even had to learn how to stretch — that quick back bend she would do before a sequence of flips was just not cutting it.
(Before a cheerleading competition called Cheer for a Cure last year, for example, Patterson won several contests, including one for completing the most back handsprings in a row: 10. Not having stretched before the routine, Patterson said she woke up the next day and could barely get out of bed.)
Krsikapa has put a major emphasis on proper preparation.
"The first two weeks of practice I was just learning stretches," Patterson exclaimed with wide-eyed emphasis. "I was so sore I was crying!"
According to Krsikapa, if Patterson continues to train, at the rate she will be able to compete as a Level 8 gymnast. In a nutshell, a Level 8 gymnast is one who can perform in all four events — balance beam, uneven bars, floor and vault — without a spotter, and bring some creativity to each routine.
Krsikapa said she could be ready for competition by the fall.
When asked where she gets the motivation and the courage try new stunts, Patterson said she likes to prove people wrong. (Sometimes her younger brother likes to wager what she can and can't do.)
A self-proclaimed adrenaline junkie, Patterson continued, "I just put it in my mind that I can do this, and I do."


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The Saint Louis University School of Law and the St. Louis Beacon will welcome Linda Greenhouse, former U.S. Supreme Court correspondent for The New York Times, currently a scholar and lecturer at Yale Law School to Saint Louis University April 6-7. Greenhouse is this year's James C. Millstone Lecturer.
Greenhouse's lecture, "She Says. He Says. Says Who? A Critical Look at Journalistic "Fairness""on the role of journalists in reporting will be held at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 6, at the Xavier Grand Ballroom at St. Francis Xavier College Church on Grand and Lindell Boulevards.
On Thursday, April 7, at noon, she will appear on a panel at the William H. Kniep Courtroom at the School of Law discussing the Supreme Court in a presentation titled "The Direction of the Roberts Court: Is It Making a Sharp Turn to the Right?" Both events are free and open to the public. The panel discussion is available for 1 hour of CLE credit in Missouri.
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Greenhouse won the Pulitzer Prize in Journalism "for her consistently illuminating coverage of the United States Supreme Court" while serving as the Supreme Court correspondent for The New York Times between 1978 and 2008.
Joining her on the panel will be William Freivogel, director of the School of Journalism at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and Anders Walker, assistant professor of law at SLU. Freivogel covered the Supreme Court as a Washington correspondent for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and now writes about the court for the St. Louis Beacon.
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Walker has been on the faculty since 2006 and is the author of The Ghost of Jim Crow: How Southern Moderates Used Brown v. Board of Education to Stall Civil Rights (New York: Oxford U. Press, 2009). He has a J.D. from Duke University School of Law and a Ph.D. in history from Yale University.
Greenhouse holds the positions of a senior research scholar in law, the Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence and Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is one of two non-lawyer honorary members of the American Law Institute, which in 2002 awarded her its Henry J. Friendly Medal.
The Council of the American Philosophical Society, of which she is a member, awarded her its Henry Allen Moe Prize for writing in the humanities and jurisprudence. She is a 1968 graduate of Radcliffe College and in 2009 was elected to the Board of Overseers at Harvard University. She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa while at Radcliffe, and currently is a member of the Senate of Phi Beta Kappa. She received the Master of Studies in Law from Yale in 1978.
The Millstone Lecture honors James C. Millstone, a long-time editor, reporter and Washington correspondent for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Millstone, who died in 1992, covered the civil rights movement and was responsible for much of the paper's coverage of constitutional law and legal issues in the course of his career. First presented in 1992, this year's lecture is the seventeenth in the series.
Millstone joined the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1956 and covered Washington for the paper in the 1960s. In 1971, he returned to St. Louis as an editor, where he would become revered by a generation of young reporters who displayed extraordinary devotion to their craft. Millstone was named senior assistant managing editor in the late 1980s. A fund to support this lecture series was established by family, friends and colleagues.
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Saint Louis University School of Law was founded in 1843 and is the oldest law school west of the Mississippi River. The strength of the faculty, breadth of course offerings and extensive clinical and professional skills experience provide students with a well-rounded legal education. The School of Law's rich history consists of strong connections to the community and a long tradition of public service. SLU LAW's location in the heart of the City of St. Louis, offers students unparalleled access to leading law firms, corporations, government agencies and non-profit organizations - and a unique opportunity to see the law in action. For more information, visit http://law.slu.edu/.
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The Beacon is dedicated to providing in-depth coverage of relevant news and challenging issues to readers in the St. Louis region. The publication was organized by veteran reporters and editors, many of them colleagues of Jim Millstone, and its staff has expanded to include young journalists beginning their careers, and an innovative business and technical staff that is designing a sustainable financial model for the future of News That Matters.