- How do you know what your life choices are?
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nishio: Itâs odd that people who appear to be making âchoicesâ from the outside can have a self-perception of ânot making choices,â which from the outside appears to be a cognitive distortion. I think that cognitive distortion is what prevents many people from being aware of their choices.
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nishio: It is obvious that the choices themselves and the amount of them vary from person to person. For example, if you are born physically weak, your options to become an athlete are much thinner. Parentsâ economic status and ideology also strongly influence a childâs choices, and the case of the rural school teacher who has his student delete his social networking account shows how much opportunity is lost by taking away that choiceâŠ
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ukkaripon: When I give lectures to children, I often talk about how the degree of effort required to make a choice or achieve an outcome depends on the previous choice I often tell them that the degree of effort required to make a choice or to achieve a result depends on the choices they made before and on the environment around them. So it was not too much the obvious choice that you donât have to work hard if you donât think you have a choice.
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nishio: I see what you mean by ânatural choiceâ. I think it is a ânatural choiceâ.
nishio: In terms of ânatural choiceâ, most people who think they are not making a choice are making a choice to attend school if they are in Japan. They may not be aware of the choice not to attend, but they are in a position to make a choice. There are many children in the world who really donât have a choice to attend school. unicef.or.jp/about_unicef/aâŠ
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nishio: the thought of taking something for granted makes choices invisible.
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nishio: Some of the reported cases included âchanged universities from graduate school, changed departmentsâ. This means that implicitly, there is a widespread false assumption that it is normal to go to the same school in the same department, and this assumption prevents people from being aware of their options.
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nishio: There are cases where a child chooses to âtake his/her lifeâ because of bullying without being able to see âthe choice to attend schoolâ or âthe choice not to attend schoolâ, I feel very sorry for them, and I think it is the responsibility of adults to make them aware of the âchoice not to attend schoolâ and the âchoice to escape from unpleasant situationsâ, so that they can choose to do so.
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