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Selection vs. Rejection

“Either you are pregnant or you are not.  There is no such thing as half pregnant.’- words of advice

For most of us worlds are very gray.  We tend to live with compromise positions.  By definition, compromise position is a loose-loose position.  Both sides loose.

Imagine having a choice between going to two vacation spots.  One is Averagonia where everything is average: the beaches, the food, the hotels, the people.  Second one is Extregonia where the beaches are great, the people are not friendly, restaurants food is great BUT hotel rooms are not so clean.  When most people are asked to chose where they would rather go they most often chose Extregonia. 

But now imagine a slightly different situation.  You have tickets for both and you need to cancel one.  Which one would you cancel?  Most people cancelled the Extregonia.

So we are both selecting Extregonia and rejecting it.  Amazing!  Why?

It was determined in experiments that when we select something we base it on positive attributes.  But when we reject, we reject based on negative attributes.  Marriages are perfect examples.  We choose our mates because of their positive traits and if we decide to get divorced we reject them because of the things that we hate about them.

Today’s question is”

“How do you select or reject?”