Pressure

[Enigmabomb]

Understanding “pressure” as we conventionally refer to it is flawed. Too often, pressure is the lack of options. If the phrase were “Do or Die Or Get Ice Cream” it would change the intrinsic motivation of the situation. Perhaps then, we need to change the possible outcomes of any situation to include a third option and move away from the binary finality we embrace as creatures of fact. Creatively finding a third option is the difference between those who can work “under pressure” and those who will “accomplish the goal no matter what”. Strive to make yourself a member of the latter group, I do.

 

[medicalhumor]

I like ice cream

 

[Bofu2U]

Totally looked like an xrumer'd post, but I shall enter this as well.

I like cookies.

 

[erect]

give me ice cream, or give me death ... there is no 3rd option

 

[conjamuk]

 

[justo_tx]

What about the saying "Shit or get off the pot"? Doe the third option come into play before I poop or before I wipe, cause that could affect my decision making process.

 

[kingofsp]

Sink or swim...or become A FUCKING MERMAID.

 

[Magic Hat]

Ben & Jerry's ftw

 

[FerrisHilton]

What about the saying "Shit or get off the pot"?

This is exactly what my old boss used to say. Wise words.

 

[Enigmabomb]

I'm not sure what I was expecting. I thinks something along these lines.

 

[guerilla]

Understanding “pressure” as we conventionally refer to it is flawed. Too often, pressure is the lack of options.

This needs to be broken down further, because "lack of options" is pretty open ended.

Lack of options can be caused by lack of imagination, lack of material means, lack of time, lack of knowledge etc. They are heterogeneous conditions.

If the phrase were “Do or Die Or Get Ice Cream” it would change the intrinsic motivation of the situation. Perhaps then, we need to change the possible outcomes of any situation to include a third option and move away from the binary finality we embrace as creatures of fact. Creatively finding a third option is the difference between those who can work “under pressure” and those who will “accomplish the goal no matter what”.

When you choose ice cream, you're favoring ice cream over doing, and over dying as two separate A/B choices, not as a third option.

All preferences are ordinal.

We would order this set like

Ice Cream
Do
Die

-or-

Ice Cream
Die
Do

Do or Die, may be preferable one to the other, but Ice Cream supersedes both.

 

[turbolapp]

On the contrary we need to work on reducing choices. Too many options increase the likely hood of analysis paralysis.

 

[kingofsp]

^ This is very true.

Long ago, I worked at Disneyland, operating several different attractions. One thing I learned when grouping: No matter how empty the park is, no matter how many empty seats are on the vehicle, don't give the guests the option to sit wherever they want.

As soon as you give people options, they go into decision mode and feel that now they must not only make a decision, but carefully consider it and make the best decision.

Whereas if I just said "Row 4", they would do as they were told and shit would be way more efficient.

 

[turbolapp]

One of the famous gurus wrote a good blog post on reducing choices a while back of course I can't find it nor can I even remember which guru it was (you know like Allen or Covey or one of those guys) Anyone?

 

[finspin]

^ Seth Godin wrote something on the subject a few days ago Seth's Blog: The paralysis of unlimited opportunity. He can do better though.

 

[4thseason]

TED Blog: "Paradox of Choice" author Barry Schwartz on TEDTalks

B~

 

[Roundabout]

All preferences are ordinal.

We would order this set like

Ice Cream
Do
Die

-or-

Ice Cream
Die
Do

Do or Die, may be preferable one to the other, but Ice Cream supersedes both.

All grown up and no place to go
Psych 1, Psych 2
What do you know?
All your life is channel 13
Sesame Street
What does it mean?

 

[gerMAN]

german version pppppppppppllllllllllllllllllllllllllzzzzzzzzzzzzz

 

[Flash4Ever]

On the contrary we need to work on reducing choices. Too many options increase the likely hood of analysis paralysis.

You got the point and gave me an implementation of 2 AI algorithms:

1) Alpha-Beta pruning algorithm:
It uses a minimax test of all possible states/solutions discarding those ones less efficient;
3) A* algorithm:
Path tree search algorithm that discards every path that is worse than current.


We mustn't forget that "resources scarcity" is the king of marketing.
On the other side the overloading (of informations, of choices) is a killer bottleneck.

 

[defelice]

I said two places, nowhere and quiznoes