Micro Project Book – Rediscovery of Choices

Rediscovery of Choices presents a way to get a little comfortable in front of the trivial choices
we face in everyday life. Things happen and this is so true. Sometimes we get sick, sometimes
we have accidents, sometimes we win lotteries, and we might even get to accidentally fall in
love while on the road— these things just happen. We can't do anything about them. However,
we repeatedly agonize, regretting things that we can do nothing about. In this aspect, the book
then brings in the ideas from Epictetus, a Roman scholar, and talks about the matter.

Quoting Pascal Mercier's Night Train to Lisbon, the book tells the story of recounting the past
when our choices had taken place. At the moment when we were standing on the crossroads of
our life, could we then have made a different choice at that time? Nevertheless, we made such
choices because we were what we were—not anybody else. In fact, there are many more things
that happen to us that are irrelevant to our personal choices, and when we accept that reality
with humility, we may be able to love our lives a little more.



Introduction: The man who chooses nothing                                                                    8

Theater of life and magic mirror

Chapter 1 - Living and choosing                                                                                   18

The reason why we can't sleep at night / The burden of choice / But in fact...

Chapter 2 - Things to think first when making choices                                                       34

Body that makes decisions / The 9th man / Objective situation and constraints of conditions

Chapter 3 - Between Reason and Irrationality                                                                   47

The meaning of the word "rational" / Virtually impossible model / In the end

Chapter 4 - The Structure of the mind                                                                            60

Consciousness is an excellent novelist / A feeling of misunderstanding /
We see only what we want to see / Two drivers /
A sketch on nothingness, a draft without drawings

Chapter 5 - The Choice of the Possible World                                                                  93

Possible worlds that can be affirmed / Situations /
The moment when something is completely wrong

Chapter 6 - Can we make a recall on our choices?                                                           112

Infinite loop of regretting / If Then / Interpretation changes and life continues

Conclusion: What is up to us; what is not                                                                       134

Our attitude toward events