The right picks aren’t necessarily the good picks.
Yeah, you might have been the one person in a gazillion who picked that 15 seed over a 2 in the first round of the college basketball tournament.
And don’t get me wrong, you get to celebrate when it turns out.
But don’t tell me it was a good pick.
It was the right pick, but it wasn’t a good pick.
Any and every metric you could possibly use in making that pick would tell you that waaaaaaaaaay more than likely, the 2 seed will beat the 15.
But instead you chose an awful pick…a truly horrible decision when given the choice between the two. You were right, but you went against an overwhelming amount of information telling you otherwise.
Now the good thing is that making a way-too risky pick in your college bracket doesn’t have any fatal consequences in the grand scheme of life…and that’s why your mind lets you pick a 15 over 2. There’s a 98% chance you’ll be wrong, which is fine, but if you’re right it’s really fun.
It’s the ol’ ends justifying the means, right?
Like when you decide to drive to the gig five hours away despite it being hurricane weather the whole way. Yes, you made the gig, but that was an awful decision…and one day you’ll realize that even though the show went on, it shouldn’t have.
Over time, your discernment develops to a point where even when the foreseeable/possible ends would justify the means, you’re aware that when the means have such an increased risk, the foreseeable/possible end isn’t justifiable as a good reason to push through.
But yes, I hope your 15 over 2 works out.
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