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Bad decisions and good outcomes

All that we are as individuals are a result of a combination of the choices that we have made throughout our lives, our environments and the experiences that we have had since childhood. We do not get to choose who our parents are or what families we are born into; the genes we inherit; the colour of our eyes; the colour and texture of our hair; our nationalities at birth; the religions we are born into; and so many other apparently important factors or conditions which shape us into the people we become. We do, however, get the chance to make choices, to make decisions, on a daily basis. Some internet sources estimate that the average adult makes around 35,000 remotely conscious decisions daily, with about 226.7 of those decisions relating to food alone. That is a lot of decisions for an activity that is, on average, performed two to four times daily. For many of us, a lot of our trainings and education, whether in sciences, arts or humanities, have focused on helping us make good,