Learning How to Do Life Well
A packed discussion as we finish our discussion of impatience and the harm it can do when we let it lead our decisions.
We then turn to other factors in dumb choices and how our reasoning can fail.
This material is from several sources, and we claim no originality at any point.
Impatience! It rarely works well for us, yet we still continue to use it. How can we avoid the traps that impatience sets for us? How can we make smarter, more patient choices.
Tim leads part 1 of this discussion.
Here is the first video we used…(The Awareness Test)
And this is the second…(Stop and Hear the Music)
Trudi leads the discussion on the dumb choices that pride can lead us into. Using Biblical examples, we see how to make smarter choices.
Today we talk about a couple of the ways in which fear encourages us to make very dumb choices. How can we make a better choice? What can we do to improve our relationships and avoid making the dumb choice?
Tim leads the discussion.
What are the primary factors that drive our dumb decisions? What can we do to increase our chances of making smarter decisions? Tim describes the recipe for the Dumb Cocktail, with illustrations and a look at a very rich man who did some very stupid things.
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We begin a new teaching arc – Smart People, Dumb Choices – that explores the choices we make and why we fail to choose wisely, especially when we know better.
Today Tim gives the introduction for the series and covers the basic categories of dumb choices.
Here is a list of some our sources for this series:
We don’t necessarily recommend any of these sources, but we are drawing some information and illustrations from each of these. Scripture remains as our primary source.