{"id":116,"date":"2008-07-09T07:57:54","date_gmt":"2008-07-09T12:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=116"},"modified":"2008-07-09T07:57:54","modified_gmt":"2008-07-09T12:57:54","slug":"choice-and-breaking-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2008\/07\/09\/choice-and-breaking-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Choice and Breaking Free"},"content":{"rendered":"

from here<\/a>:
\nIn other words, our choices depend upon what\u2019s available, not what\u2019s rational. This is true of even highly intelligent people.
\nAnd of course, your neighbourhood, your school influences what seems available to you. This is why peer effects matter<\/a>.\u00a0 If you\u2019re surrounded by people who carry knives, you\u2019re more likely to carry one yourself, simply because the option of doing so is more salient. Similarly, if your friends are all studying for Oxbridge, you might be more likely to do so.
\nMy personal history corroborates this. I got into Oxford – from which the rest was straightforward –\u00a0 not because I was smarter or harder-working than others, but because a teacher told me I could do it. Had he not made the choice available, the thought of going to Oxford would never have occurred to me – ability or not.
\nCircumstances, then, determine choice.<\/strong><\/em>
\nAfter office me and a couple of my officemates decided to hang out at a nearby Starbucks, I think we stayed for about 2 hours.\u00a0 I was telling them that I used to be insecure with my educational background and it hampered me for awhile and a considerably long time. It was only when I was able to study the lives of people whom I admired that I came to the conclusion that:
\nI control my destiny to a large extent.
\nThat , People cannot say what I can and cannot DO.
\nMy Desire And The HardWork That I muster and put in any endeavor Is my own reward.
\nThis is clarion call to people living within the confines of what our environment has put upon us.
\nWe control our lives. Lives we must learn to live on our terms!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from here: In other words, our choices depend upon what\u2019s available, not what\u2019s rational. This is true of even highly intelligent people. And of course, your neighbourhood, your school influences what seems available to you. This is why peer effects matter.\u00a0 If you\u2019re surrounded by people who carry knives, you\u2019re more likely to carry one … <\/p>\n

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