I'm Emily P. Freeman and welcome to The Next Right Thing. You're listening to episode

196. This is a podcast about making decisions but also about making life. If you struggle with

decision fatigue, chronic hesitation, or if you just need a few minutes away from the constant

stream of information, and the sometimes delightful but also distracting

hum of entertainment, you're in the right place for a thoughtful story, a little prayer,

and a simple next right step.

Today we're going to talk about a commonly made list that comes up when we talk about decision

making, either decisions that we need to make for ourselves or we often

recommend this list to others.

You know it well, I'm sure.

It's the pros and cons list.

Listen in.

This is the time of year where I'm nostalgic for shows that seem to either be set in the fall or that I tend to watch in the fall.

And one of those shows is Gilmore Girls.

Well, there's an episode where Rory has to decide which college that she wants to go to.

And this is the episode I always think of when I'm thinking about a pro con or a pros and cons list. In the episode,

which is, by the way, for the fans, that's season three, episode 17, a tale of pose and fire.

But Brorie makes a three pro con list, one for Harvard, one for Princeton, and one for Yale. Tough

life, right? By making the lists, she's such a rule

follower that she vows to obey the list no matter what it says in the end. Well, at the end of the

episode, she finally makes her decision. I won't give spoilers even though it's been over 10 years

since the episode aired. But at the end of the

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