Speaker 1: Because finally, as I pointed out, you do not know
Speaker 1: where your decisions come from. They pop up like hiccups,
Speaker 1: and when you make a decision, people have a great
Speaker 1: deal of anxiety about making decisions. There's this guy who
Speaker 1: farmer who ordered a help man to come in and
Speaker 1: foundly he was an extraordinarily efficient worker. Because the first
Speaker 1: day he put him on sawing logs, and he saw
Speaker 1: more logs than anybody had ever saw. It was fantastic.
Speaker 1: But they were all done in one day. So the
Speaker 1: next day put him onto mending fences, and there are
Speaker 1: all kinds of broken fences around the farm, and in
Speaker 1: one day he had the whole thing done. So he thought,
Speaker 1: what am I going to do with this guy? So
Speaker 1: he took him down into a basement and said, look here,
Speaker 1: all are all the potatoes that have come in from
Speaker 1: this harvest, and I want you to sort them into
Speaker 1: three groups, those that we sell, those that we use
Speaker 1: for seeding, and those that we throw away. So he
Speaker 1: left him at that. At the end of the day,
Speaker 1: the laborer came back and said, well that's enough, mister,
Speaker 1: I'll quit. Oh, he said, you can't quit. I've never
Speaker 1: had such an excellent word I'll raise your salary. I'll
Speaker 1: do anything to keep you around it. Ah, I said, no,
Speaker 1: all right, mending fences and chopping wood. But this potato
Speaker 1: business is decision after decision after decision. So when we decide,
Speaker 1: we're always worrying did I think this over long enough?
Speaker 1: Did I take enough data into consideration? And if you
Speaker 1: think it through, you find you never could take enough
Speaker 1: data into consideration. The data for a decision in any
Speaker 1: given situation is infinite. So what you do is you
Speaker 1: go through the motions of thinking out what you will
Speaker 1: do about this, and then when the time comes to act,
Speaker 1: you make a snap judgment. I mean, I'm speaking a
Speaker 1: little extremely, making some fun of it and so on,
Speaker 1: because after all, we do occasionally get the vague outlines
Speaker 1: of things and make a right decision on rational grounds,
Speaker 1: but we fortunately forget the variables that could have interfered
Speaker 1: with this coming out right. It's amazing how often it works.
Speaker 1: But warriors are people who think of all the variables
Speaker 1: beyond their control and what might happen. So then when
Speaker 1: you make a decision and it works out all right,
Speaker 1: I think very little of it has much to do
Speaker 1: with your conscious intent and control