One of my favorite shows of the last five years is called The Good Place. One of the main characters in the show is a philosophy professor named Chidi Anagonye. Chidi is a good man, and a very intelligent one, but he has one fatal defect: The inability to make a decision. Due in part to his own self-awareness, he is constantly in a state of mental turmoil, questioning not just his own actions, but the thoughts behind them, wondering what biases they may be the result of. In one scene, the show flashes back to when he was a kid, tasked with picking his team for a schoolyard football game. It’s an exercise in frustration — Chidi can’t pick a single teammate.

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