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In order to
come more readily to rapid decisions it is a good thing to prove to oneself
one's degree of insight.
To do this one must imagine oneself as being compelled to make certain
resolutions, the result of which, however, can be determined, and one must
endeavor to decide them in the most prompt fashion possible and yet with the
greatest degree of wisdom in our power.
One should take as a basis for such decisions the ordinary incidents of one's
daily life, making it a rule with oneself never to make a decision except with
absolute earnestness.
Then when one is about to make the decision, one should be very particular not
to change it, especially when it threatens to have unpleasant results. This
condition can, on the contrary, serve us as a very practical lesson.
It will be a proof of our own want of reflection which has dictated the act that
we are endeavoring to perform, and we can not fail to draw from it results that
will tend to make us much more minutely careful when we are next called upon to
render a decision.
This unswerving application to a certain end can be practiced with equal
advantage with respect to intellectual affairs in exactly the same way as with
the daily occurrences of our lives.
If we undertake some task, we must impose upon ourselves the necessity of
carrying it out to the very end, whatever its nature may be.
This fixity in following out the objects of our resolutions will be of the
greatest service in our every-day life. Nothing is more likely to lead one
astray than the dreams of the irresolute.
One is scarcely ready to undertake something when it becomes necessary, in order
to follow their lead, to divert one's attention from the matter in hand to fix
it upon some quite alien effort.
If, however, one's protestations are sufficiently vigorous to deter them from
persisting in their second project, it is with regret that they will finally
abandon it, and they will never cease to grieve over it, in the face of all the
evidence against it.
With people of indecision, the ideas that they have given up always appear in
the most brilliant colors, while that which they have decided to follow
invariably seems to them to be filled with difficulties. They never get all the
joy there is out of any pleasure.
Are they about to go out? They regret the comforts of the house. Are they
staying in? To go out for a walk appears to them more than attractive and they
chafe against the necessity of what they style to themselves an imprisonment.
Life is for them nothing but an uninterrupted series of regrets. They have
hardly made up their minds to adopt one decision before they begin to suffer at
their inability to act in an exactly opposite manner.
Their intellectual life is as much spoiled by this terrible defect as is their
physical existence.
They can not even make up their minds to choose something to read.
They have scarcely begun the work they have decided upon before they begin to
regret the one they have previously discarded.
If they decide, after all, to come back to this, they will not fail to find it
even more lacking in interest than the one they have abandoned.
This is the pessimistic form of indecision.
The optimistic form is no less dangerous.
Instead of failing to find any good qualities in the things they have or in the
resolutions they made, the optimists of indecision see everything through
rose-colored glasses. Nevertheless, the things that they give up seem to them
none the less attractive.
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