This is Stevea Robbins.

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The life skill that will make or break you is making good decisions.

Consider Goldilocks. She spent a lot of time deciding if a bowl of porridge was too hot, too cold, or just right.

She was so obsessed with cooking temperature

that she never even considered that breaking and entering is a crime. And breaking and entering

a home owned by wild bears, that's just dumb. When I was a student at MIT, I discovered that

each dorm had its own personality. We spent the first week of the year giving incoming

students tours and feeding them lobster,

all to persuade the ones that we liked to come live with us.

Baker House has nicer rooms, an incoming Frosh would say.

Choose the house where you feel most comfortable, I replied.

Of course, your choice will determine who you become as a person and set the stage for your entire life.

But don't think about that.

Here, have some lobster.

A decision's consequence is start now and go on forever.

But when we make decisions, we usually only use a single time frame for considering the

consequences.

Good decisions require using a time frame that matches the decision, not a time frame that

matches whatever time frame you happen to use mentally.

Too short a time horizon is when we consider consequences into the next few minutes, weeks,

or months, but a decision's really big consequences may be years away.

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