Freud on Decision-Making and the Unconscious

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Here is one of my favourite quotations from Sigmund Freud that
might provoke some reflection on how you make decisions:

"When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found
it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital
matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession,
the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere
within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life,
we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our
nature."

My web site has a compilation of over 100 quotations and short
excerpts. A shorter list of about 50 of them can be found at:
http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/ID/X00003ACE/

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