A purple yoga mat has stood behind the spare-room door since February. I bought it on a good Sunday, fully meaning it, and now all it does is keep the door from banging into the radiator.
Nobody in my house thinks yoga is a bad idea, me least of all. So why is the mat still there?
Socrates said nobody chooses the worse option knowingly, and Aristotle spent a chapter pointing out that everyone has watched themselves do it. This piece covers where the paradox comes from, what it gets right, and three small tools for the gap it leaves. The tools are below the line.
