Dave Evans

It turns out, thinking well, making a good decision,

is a good idea.

And if we could run, you know, the same decision in a thousand parallel universes and watch all the vagaries, you know, the better decisions would probably work out more often than the bad decisions.

But let's be clear.

I'm not in charge of the future.

You can influence as best you possibly can.

But let's have an honest and humble perspective on ourselves.

I'm doing the best I can, but that doesn't mean it's going to work.

Absolutely.

What we're trying to do is I'm trying to give reality its best possible chance of turning out the way I hope.

And then once I'm doing that, then I release the fact that then I get to fully participate in the reality that is actually going to occur.

So if indeed I've planned this thing and it rains that day, well, I can spend all afternoon going shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, you know, and being mad at the weatherman who owed me a sunny afternoon or just go, OK, and what can we do with this?

You know, there's this phrase making the best of a bad situation.

That's really unfair.

The situation doesn't think of itself as bad.

The rain's not going, I'm here to ruin your party.

You know, the rain's just falling.

So it's really making the best of the situation.

All we're ever trying to do is make the best of the situation.

Well, there's the old line that life is a story we tell ourselves, and the psychologist will remind us now that's true.