The first part of making a good decision is to decide how much time is reasonable to spend making said decision.
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Yes! But can we forge some everyday-grade wisdom from this? Also, please elaborate on daoism!
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Lots of the dao de ching is about waiting until the right moment to do things, when you have the most leverage and need the least effort to move things. So there are certain (saddle) points where poking something moves it a lot. You shouldn't try to move things outside them. ...
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i’ve never heard of “saddle points” i want to learn more
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A saddle point in a >3d graph is a point that is locally flat (technically: the derivative with respect to all variables is 0), but is neither a local max nor a local min. Typically, they look like saddles: doing a spin, you'll see the graph go up then down then up then down.
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