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Date: 20 September 2006 15:46:08
I learnt how to toss a coin.
You know the scenario: you have to choose between two options and you simply can't decide. Both look attractive, but as soon as you think you've decided in favour of one option you start thinking about all the reasons to choose the other. Your mind seems to insist on sitting on the fence.
Obviously, then, the thing to do is to toss a coin. But I noticed (at least I think I did, but I probably just read it somewhere - I'm amazed at how many ideas I've had that turned out to be things I read years before, but at least I know for a fact that I'm not the first person to notice that phenomenon, although I can't remember who it was that said that inspiration is subconscious remembering) that once I'd tossed the coin I'd feel a reaction. I might find that the coin said I should go for one option and I'd feel really disappointed, making it clear that I really wanted to go for the other option. Or I might find myself relieved at how the coin toss had worked out. So it's clear that my mind had come to a decision, it just wouldn't tell me what it was.
All of which left me: a) dead chuffed at finding a way of making decisions, b) puzzled why my mind was so uncooperative, c) disturbed that I find myself thinking about my mind in the third person and d) wondering why I have to make tossing a coin so complicated.