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Decisions

Decisions

Dec 22, 2025 · by Manav Rathi

Some questions do not have right or wrong answers; only different ones.

In although of course you end up becoming yourself, Chris Peterson describes how each answer is a future self.

This is unnerving, a trolley problem, killing countless future selves to engender the current one. And there is no way to trianglate what the alternative choices would’ve lead to. But there is a way of going about it by making “well-made” decisions that arise not from analysis but desire.

In any case though,

No matter how you decided, you will be different, and you will be fine. From among the endless, infinite, impossible yous, you will, in time, become yourself; become, at least in this world, the only you that you could have ever really been.

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