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I think many intelligent people fall into the following logical trap:
1) There are lots of exciting things I could do to change (and improve) my life.
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2) There are lots of good reasons why it's unfeasible/impossible/a bad idea to do it now.
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3) I can't change my life in those desired ways until later
and here's the fallacy
4) So obviously I'll wait until the time is right, and then effect those changes
The countervailing argument is that the time is never right, so you have to just sort of push things through right now, regardless of how disruptive that will be to your current situation.
Which I also disagree with. Seems to me like the way to go is: decide what you truly want to do (which is hard in itself but certainly not impossible), pick a time decently far away from now (e.g. 10 months or whatever works), and figure out what you can do now to make it happen then. It's true, for me at least, that once I take that first step, I'm much more likely to end up achieving that thing 10 months down the road, even if it's just a road trip to Utah or something halfway-trivial.
Right now I'm 75% of the way to deciding what I truly want to do, then I need to figure out what I should do about it now.
1) There are lots of exciting things I could do to change (and improve) my life.
plus
2) There are lots of good reasons why it's unfeasible/impossible/a bad idea to do it now.
equals
3) I can't change my life in those desired ways until later
and here's the fallacy
4) So obviously I'll wait until the time is right, and then effect those changes
The countervailing argument is that the time is never right, so you have to just sort of push things through right now, regardless of how disruptive that will be to your current situation.
Which I also disagree with. Seems to me like the way to go is: decide what you truly want to do (which is hard in itself but certainly not impossible), pick a time decently far away from now (e.g. 10 months or whatever works), and figure out what you can do now to make it happen then. It's true, for me at least, that once I take that first step, I'm much more likely to end up achieving that thing 10 months down the road, even if it's just a road trip to Utah or something halfway-trivial.
Right now I'm 75% of the way to deciding what I truly want to do, then I need to figure out what I should do about it now.