Why we make bad choices in life 229 Articles

by Bill Allin

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. - Ralph Waldo Emerson One of the toughest lessons to learn, especially for those who live in the...read more

by Linda Shrigley

Why We Make Bad Choices in Life I could never list all the reasons on why anyone makes bad choices in life, there are so many. Depending on who is making these choices, are they really bad or are they bad from someone e...read more

by Kelly Gleason

Selfishness. Disillusionment. Imagination. In my own experience, bad choices in life come from the desire to have something greater than I have to start with. I want to be rich, so I am vulnerable to the "get rich ...read more

by Sofia SanPasquale

Sometimes it is best to learn things the hard way. The lessons you learn through mistakes are the ones you will never forget. And are there even "bad choices" to begin with? Or are some alternatives simply better than o...read more

by Connie Iwaszewski

Why do we make bad choices in life? Life is one long learning experience and we usually learn from our mistakes. Mistakes can be innocent and not harmful and then there are the bad choices we make in life which may or ma...read more

by Carol Gioia

"If I only knew then what I know now." That lament pretty much sums up how I feel about bad choices made in the past. We make choices based on the information and knowledge we have at the time. When we are young, we d...read more

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by Dragos Roua

There are no bad or good choices, there are only choices. "Good" and "bad" are just points of view, values that we've been thought since we were kids. And most of the time with a strong emphasis on one's self-respect, If y...read more

by Todd Pheifer

The reality of choices is that they often do not appear to be bad choices at the time. Once the choice is made, the circumstances of the situation can sometimes make the result less than favorable. Of course, sometimes w...read more

by Sheila Brown

Well I think that people make bad choices because they like to hang out with the wrong crowds and they get into alot of trouble and the ones that are suppose to be your friends you never see them again once you get in trou...read more

by Ivan-ac

There are any number of reasons we make bad choices in life. And it seems that hindsight is the only real tool that can discern good choices from bad. The problem with that is obvious. By the time hindsight has exposed to ...read more

by James Mockridge.

The question of 'Why we make bad choices in life?' is predominately because at that particular time in our lives it most probably felt like the right thing to do. We do not possess the power of hindsight. We live, we make ...read more

by mr. uhhh

I'm sure that people are familiar with the story of Adam and Eve. These two were the first two people to commit a bad choice in our world. The choice which I believe has affected us all by passing down the temptation that ...read more

by Rob Dacosta

Simply put ... we're far too optimistic about the consequences of our choices. Who among us hasn't said that given a choice to change something from the past that we wouldn't gladly go back and do just that? Smoking, d...read more

by Lea Harrell

I have made more bad choices in my life than I care to admit. I regret quite a few of those choices. I used to wish that I had a time machine; I would go back and make the choice that I should have made. But, who knows, wo...read more

by Charles Johnson

Every day when we get up it is time to plan your day. Some of us will really try to get to get some things done during the day. If we live in a world where every thing and everybody has a bad outlook about life, yo...read more

by Mary Pfaff

My choices were made from past experiences. Memories of my father's temper, his mental illness, my mother's frustration, their fights, they cloud my vision. Always feeling inadequate, undeserving. I wanted someone to prote...read more

by Claudia Tietze

We make bad choices in life because we aren't perfect. It takes a lot of mistakes to start making good choices. For some, these happen early in life and you learn that for each decision you make there are certain consequen...read more

by Jane Allyson

None of us know what the future will bring, and we all do our best to make the right decisions in regard to our present situation, that we hope will lead to a happy, fulfilling and successful life. We are all aware of t...read more

by David Furritus

Because they're necessary. Every day people go about doing things that they know are anything but correct, but they still think it's a good idea at the time. They might decide to trade stocks online - on margin. They mi...read more

by Stanley W. Shura

I have a rather bold theory on this question of why even smart and experienced people end up making bad choices. There is of course some statistical inevitability to be accounted for as, being human, we will sometimes mak...read more