I think in the abstract form it’s a good question for consideration, in the sense that it gets asked on a daily basis by all of us and the answer is important to our health and productivity. Surely spending some time thinking about it could be helpful.
The fact that frequently something demands an answer now is a good reason to decide a working answer to take action with—but that does not imply that you can’t later revisit it and consider it more abstractly when you do have the time and distance from the pressing situation. Whether your past choice was right or wrong is worth knowing, as well as how to act in the future.
Think of a split-second decision to grab a candy bar versus taking a few minutes to fry up an egg—or even e.g. studying vegan cooking. We can rate these as relatively better or worse later on by various criteria, even if there wasn’t much room for debate on the matter at the time.
I think in the abstract form it’s a good question for consideration, in the sense that it gets asked on a daily basis by all of us and the answer is important to our health and productivity. Surely spending some time thinking about it could be helpful.
The fact that frequently something demands an answer now is a good reason to decide a working answer to take action with—but that does not imply that you can’t later revisit it and consider it more abstractly when you do have the time and distance from the pressing situation. Whether your past choice was right or wrong is worth knowing, as well as how to act in the future.
Think of a split-second decision to grab a candy bar versus taking a few minutes to fry up an egg—or even e.g. studying vegan cooking. We can rate these as relatively better or worse later on by various criteria, even if there wasn’t much room for debate on the matter at the time.