I assume you are familiar with the I Ching. If not, it really doesn’t matter. You may wish to take a look at it. The entire concept, grounded 3000 to 5000 years ago in China, goes off the charts with diagrams, seeing into the future, decisions, how a tortoise shell breaks when brittle and dropped— all kinds of stuff. Patterns.
Buildings, or square blocks, could be filled with what has been written and said about the system or Way of the I Ching.
It is enough that you understand that I am talking about ‘peripheral impact in decision-making’ - which I just made up.
In your profession, you MUST appreciate peripheral decision making. It is how you, me, everyone, makes that decision to do what they do. To make the selection. To buy. To say yes; no. To go or to stay.
On the way to Starbucks to get coffee and a blueberry scone, you go to McDonalds and get a biscuit and coffee (with extra espresso). Or, once at Starbucks, you go to order a scone and order an oatmeal cookie.
One night, I stop talking to another policeman out on the road, and I go to the station and resign.
One day, walking around a car lot, I drive away in a new car.
All of humankind makes a billion decisions a moment. Many of us gather lots of facts. We do a bunch of thinking and analysis. We bounce ideas off of people. We study and read. BUT…at the actual very, split second when we say YES…. when we order the oatmeal cookie or sign to buy THAT house at THAT moment… you do it because of mysterious, peripheral inputs. Little teeny things— a look, a glance, a sound, a smell, a thought from long ago…a feeling— things that you do not even know enough to name, come together and crate the YES. The act. If you think and are honest about your decisions, and pull them apart, and study them down to the nth degree, you will find this peripheral force at work, in that moment of actually pulling the trigger.
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