The last days for Paul A Young Chocolates 💔

The end of an era. Details below, plus more delicious suggestions, of course.

Hello,

I hope you’ve had a good week?

Funny how easy it is to look back on something and think “yeah, that sucked”.

I would always start my school and university assignments straight away to get all of my initial ideas out of my brain and onto paper. Then I’d do complete rewrites at least twice, once when I’d done all the research and again to make it sound better. I was usually editing one of those rewrites late into the night before it was due to be handed in. 😄

I was (am) both a “last minute person” and a “start the assignment straight away person”.

I guess fundamentally that makes me a “last minute person”…

I like to think it’s because I am a “maximiser”, rather than just disorganised.

Maximising is not as fun as it sounds. It means I will spend a disproportionately long amount of time looking for the best option … or writing and rewriting something. 🙈

Maximising vs Satisficing

In 1957, behavioural economist Herbert Simon pointed out the impossibility of maximising utility/resources…