What is your favorite color?
Cool. Now why is that your favorite color?
“Because it is my favorite” doesn’t count. The why of your choices is almost as important as the decision itself. So why is that your favorite color?
The Principle of the Thing
Knowing the why gives you guidelines. The why is synonymous with your ideals. The answer to the question why needs to be solidified in you because it reflects on your core principles.
With that answer in mind, your future decision making gets easier and easier because you have a precedent to follow as opposed to going through the same decision making process over and over.
An example:
- What is your favorite color?
- Blue.
- Why?
- Because it is calming, reminds me of the sky, and it is cool/techie.
- So, you like technology and calm.
Possible principle: Your goal is to make the process of using technology a calm experience. If you find something incongruent with that principle, avoid it.
There are a million different interpretations. What’s yours?
One Comment
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I think you make a great point that we should know the why. Still, my son loves green and he can't tell me why but I know he knows it to his core that he favors green. That depth of knowing should never be lost at the risk of the level of knowing that can give you the why. In my opinion, knowing the why doesn't always reveal a deeper truth but it's worth examining.