Bad Choices: Why We Make 'Em

I'm going to defer to the authority...his examples are great - the kind that makes you shake your head and say, no, I would never think that, I'm better at math than that, until you realize you fall into the pitfalls too (yes, I know, some few super-math-and-logic-guys out there don't do it). The question is whether being cognizant of our proclivities for messed-up-reasoning can help us prevent ourselves from acting on it, even if we can't prevent our minds from jumping to silly conclusions.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Dan Gilbert, with an early TED talk (2005) that is still worth it.

One Foot after Another

Sometimes, the hardest decisions to make are not the big ones that are surely around the bend.
Sometimes, the hardest decisions to make are the ones that facilitate patience until you round that bend.

It's not just that the "waiting is the hardest part" (thanks, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers), but the unknown....not even sure what is around the bend, but knowing that it is there, and that you can make it, or shape it, or foster it, as you come to know what it is. One day...hour...minute at a time...one foot in front of another...and the decisions will surely come to roost, until you're ready to make them.

http://www.savagechickens.com/2008/05/patience.html