How Men Fail

In the course of our daily lives, or at least that part of our daily life that passes as our livelihood, we are called upon to make many decisions. Granted, the majority of us are not in those occupations where our decisions could cause someone to loose their life, and this entry does not apply to them anyway.

But the rest of us make many decisions, some small, some not so, during the course of our livelihood. When faced with such a decision, logic would dictate that the more information that was obtained, the better the decision would be. Albeit some decisions must meet a time constraint, a lot of decisions, sometimes affecting millions of dollars, are not time-constrained, and the more information the better. Alas, this does not happen. We listen to a plethora of information, but not from a plethora of sources. It would seem that if we take the time to contact and solicit a plethora of sources, then we would be perceived as weak, or unable to make a decision on our own. So what happens (sometimes) is we listen (a lot) to sales people who tell us all the wonderful attributes of the product we are looking at and either do not mention (or do not know) those wonderful idiosyncratic things that will make the product practically useless to us.

After the product is purchased and the monies expended, the first thing that pops up are, yep, you guessed it, the idiosyncrasies. Now we have the choice of spending even more money (which will make us look bad), or saying, "We messed up" which will make us look worse. So we attempt to push the blame onto the ineptitude of others by saying things like, "you didn't implement this correctly", or, "it wasn't installed correctly", when all the while, we just didn't have the information we needed to make the decision before us in a purely logical manner.

So somewhere down the road, we are left with, "Houston, we have a problem"...

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