I have a growing backlog of Cate Hall posts to read through over at Useful Fictions. Every time I open a post from her, I expect it to be somehow not as good as the last one I read—yet it consistently is. This recent post In praise of quitting is no exception.

Try it. Go around your day, narrating all of your choices to yourself. With everything you do, consciously say, in your head: “I am choosing to do this, because it’s the best course of action according to all the information I have available.” See if it feels true.