The Pressures of Leading a Double Life

[eastender]

Audibles

Pareto law - or call it the 80/20 principle at work: a smaller percentage of quality attention produces the largest amount of comfort. Applied to different facets of life, this sort of compensatory attention may allow one to have multiple lives with no real problem.

Takes discipline though.

My post #21 described the case where constant attention dedicated to one field of activity makes up for one's inadequacies when facing multiple choices situations. Football: designed plays, zone coverage, etc. limits the number of choices. Strip clubs: escalated marketing. Step in, pay. Sit, pay. Order a drink, pay. "May I sit with you?", pay. Head to the cabin, pay, repeat. Preset choices working in sequence. Uncomplicated life.

Off the field, off the SC, things get more complicated, beyond saying YES or NO, I would say. "Yes" but maybe I should have said "no" instead. What am I giving up when I say yes or no? Not everyone is capable of easily deciding between yes or no, they prefer someone would make the choice for them. "Chinese or Indian restaurant?" Answer: "you decide".

Football comes with audibles or check-off options. No everyone is prepared, can see or use these in real life situations. Not even football players.

The ability to transfer attributes or tactics from one distinct situation or facet of life to another is the challenge.

 

[z/m(Ret)]

Sequential Choices

In high school youngsters are confronted with class choice, school choice, career choice as if they were connected or one. If you do not choose this class __________ you may not qualify for that school __________and you may not have such ___________ a career. Fill in the appropriate blanks.
Respectively could be biology,McGill,doctor.

EE,

From class choice to career choice is a long sequence which tends to break for various reasons. Countless school dropouts and program changes instruct us that choices incurring further choices over a long period of time are challenging and may eventually come under questioning.

Moreover, most common strategies also happen to be the poorest ones: either loathing the process of choosing and jump on the first available alternative or procrastinate until the most prized choices are no longer available. Not everyone seeks the very best out of N possibilities using Kepner-Tregoe matrix. (nerdy humour)

Conversely, the sequence in a strip club is shrunk to a few easy choices to be made within a much shorter period of time. People don't have the luxury of seeking the best out of N possibilities: clients are quickly placed in an environment where they can only loathe the process of choosing or procrastinate. "Good SC clients" are the ones who take the first alternative offered. Those instead who procrastinate might be greeted in a less welcoming fashion.

I dunno but the little I know about strip clubs gives me that sense of which strategies should be avoided when confronted with real-life decisions.

 

[eastender]

I Agree

EE,

From class choice to career choice is a long sequence which tends to break for various reasons. Countless school dropouts and program changes instruct us that choices incurring further choices over a long period of time are challenging and may eventually come under questioning.

Moreover, most common strategies also happen to be the poorest ones: either loathing the process of choosing and jump on the first available alternative or procrastinate until the most prized choices are no longer available. Not everyone seeks the very best out of N possibilities using Kepner-Tregoe matrix. (nerdy humour)

Conversely, the sequence in a strip club is shrunk to a few easy choices to be made within a much shorter period of time. People don't have the luxury of seeking the best out of N possibilities: clients are quickly placed in an environment where they can only loathe the process of choosing or procrastinate. "Good SC clients" are the ones who take the first alternative offered. Those instead who procrastinate might be greeted in a less welcoming fashion.

I dunno but the little I know about strip clubs gives me that sense of which strategies should be avoided when confronted with real-life decisions.

I agree. For reasons that may be beyond explanation people tend to combine and lump into one decisions that are distinct. So be it.

The strip club venue goes against rational thought. The majority who succumb lose.Just a question of how quickly. Those who salvage rationality succeed but question whether the return was worth the effort. If the scope extends beyond clients the permutations and combinations increase drastically.

Re-visit my "three lefts make a right" comment. It is a very banal analogy whose applications may be surprising.