themselves so you know Wallace's answer to this problem is is to leave things to that shiftiness but but then to sort of rationalize their behaviors through these secret e explanations which is a Mania it's like the Mania of of ofabdication I can never fully satisfy the world so I I but I can think about doing so forever and another common answer is
when I was mentoring kids in class, um you know, it is very clear. I feel like my mentality has changed. Um, you know, I rationalize spending my weekends, you know, partying or hanging out with friends. Um, you know, telling myself that, you know, if I focus now and making as much money as possible, you know, later on down the road, sort of Bill Gates style, you know, I can make a
'The Executive,' he wrote, referring to himself, 'in seizing the fugitive occurrence which so much advances the good of the country have done an act beyond the Constitution.' Jefferson rationalized his decision, telling himself that his act of subversion was a vote of confidence in the fledgeling nation. Quote 'I did this for your own good,' he wrote plainly.
It was rare to get that kind of in-person time with her. So I continued to rationalize . And then I check in with my in-laws and they say she's actually doing great.
It's much harder to undo once we've established racial segregation. So in order to rationalize , justify to ourselves the fact that despite the fact that we understand that racial segregation is wrong, harmful, unconstitutional, and inconsistent with a democratic society, we've adopted the rationalization to justify the fact that we haven't done anything about it.
We have to decide that which is capitalist and that which is not capitalist. You could rationalize the 80:20 principle, and completely capitalistically, you probably do know.
Children between six and 12 function by instinct. They do not rationalize everything that's going around-- do not try to figure it out rationally. And I could sense it in every ounce of my being that things were getting very bad.
So he has a rational model of addiction. He could rationalize anything. Gotta do this, sorry.
over and over I found myself feeling kind of inappropriate things and part of why I was writing that thing obvious the journal obviously was to rationalize my own my own feelings to myself and the little passage I want I going to read before we have our conversation um was um a passage I wrote when I realized for
And it did not go well. And then it rationalizes it rather than having it rationalized .
You children go to school. And then he rationalized , I think, and the Nazis won't come. The Germans won't come to this tiny village to pick up six Jews.
Justin Trudeau was not going to win. now and these people can rationalize . I think we're going to win. I think it'll be a big change, you know, but still it
So they won't listen to political scientists necessarily, but they certainly will listen to economists. Because well-educated people can rationalize why they're cocooning in a way that less well-educated people can't.
Richard: And you know Armstrong was probably well you know and then Armstrong was the next guy. I think if Hinault can rationalize that, I think that's probably what he did.
careful philosophers like to and if you've taken courses in philosophy in ethics or in Aesthetics you know that philosophers like to rationalize our intuitions what they do is is take a sort of intuitive world view in ethics that you get from from Kant or from Aristotle or from John Stewart
Typically, change happens despite governments. And only later does government policy at best retrospectively rationalize what came out of the creative, destructive process of entrepreneurship, displacement, and a replacement of the status quo by visionaries who have what looks at the time
given access to so much information that we can rationalize it anyway we want. It's one
And I'm just about-- and I'm trying to rationalize it.
And it is on some level if you want to rationalize that, but think about what could happen, or what could change.
You then-- this is the kicker-- you then rationalize it with amazing justifications that make you seem right.
And you can also see this as trying to rationalize the world in making equal length months, going back toward the invention of the metric system of course
So there's a lot of things that we could rationalize that we were getting the awareness out through it.
So it just speaks to our ability to rationalize and come up with reasons for practically anything.
among their peers they felt the need to rationalize the choice that they had made but you could just see you could
I made excuses. I rationalized why I should keep these nails in place.
They had other priorities and those priorities allowed them to discount and even rationalize the complexity
And now I may think, rationalize if I'm paying 18, let me go 22, whereas this sentiment did not exist before.
That's-- and I said, how do you rationalize that?
And part of that 40 in the foreground is what we use to rationalize our decisions or make us feel better about our decisions.
True. Now I have to rationalize that they just don't like me.
You see yourself as less trustworthy than when you have the time to rationalize .
And he said, you know, I can't rationalize that.
That's just what happens when you get older, and you rationalize it in some other way.
But it was very hard being six years, trying to rationalize it.
Because you have to make choices, you have to rationalize it to yourself.
have different kind of job skills that they don't have perspective that they sometimes can't rationalize now they can
Designers, for example, are rewarded for their ability to rationalize design based on data and reason-- hence the term "data-driven design." And that's all very valuable.
we could get these going on a bigger scale where people are talking about them it would tend to rationalize the whole Market first of all it would
There was the feeling that I really definitely needed to get out, but then when I rationalized it, there was this huge, long list of cons,
So how do I kind of, how's that rationalized ?
And it's shared by both the right and the left, the concept of rationalized completeness.
go, "No, you're still a good person despite this one thing." And so, we try to rationalize it, we try to excuse it, we try to explain it. And there is some truth to it
And so people look back at the Enlightenment and say, how could this supposedly great era also justify and actually rationalize the slave trade
You need to go into the place inside of you, not where you think about love, not where you rationalize love,
where, first, I could talk about it, and then, second, I could be able to rationalize about it.
So the ivory tower is under-- I don't know if it ever really existed, but it's very hard to rationalize today.
So it's a little perverse in some respects, but at least that's the way I rationalize it.
And Joseph Campbell said, the one main reason that human beings create myths, these stories that explain reality, was to rationalize and justify
And we've created an elaborate land of milk and honey, and Krishna and the Cow, and all kinds of things to explain and rationalize this behavior.
And a lot of times like- like you said you lose your $100,000 here but to you, you can rationalize it to yourself that, oh, you made the right decision mathematically.