LIFE SKILLS
How to Make Logical Decisions Today and For the Future
Tools for evaluating needs, motives, steps, and anticipated outcomes
Ed and I were in love. We’d been working together and dating for a while and had been looking forward to going to Las Vegas together. I dropped two coins in a slot machine and he gave me an incredulous look.
“You have to play the maximum number of coins.” With a Master’s degree in Business Administration and a minor in Applied Mathematics working on a computer system, I knew he could be a little rigid.
I shook my head. “No, I’m not planning on winning this time.” He was baffled. “And I’m not going to marry you,” I added thoughtfully.
Ed was suddenly uncomfortable. “Because I’m gay? I can overlook you being born with the wrong body.”
I had fun explaining my long-departed great-grandmother might not be ready to help yet, I wasn’t wearing the right shoes, and the machine knew better than to pay me less than the maximum. We were still developing our relationship — the slot machine and me.
Marrying Ed wasn’t a viable option for a lot of reasons, but leading my list was his lack of appreciation for the not-so-obvious variables that go into making decisions big and small.
