The two returned to the chairman's office, and instead of going to the leisure area, Lucy walked straight to the conference room, Xu Xincheng followed, turned off his mobile phone, and entered the door.

Lucy picked up the tablet and pressed it a few times, turning the clear glass wall of the conference room a light blue.

Only then did Xu Xincheng realize that this would be a very important and very confidential conversation.

Lucy motioned for him to sit in the same seat he had taken for today's meeting, and instead of sitting in the chair chair, she walked across from the table and sat down on the seat across from him.

After the two sat down, Lucy looked at him with a firm gaze and said, "Steve, I can give you a very official answer to the question you just asked, such as I like challenges, AI is my greatest interest, I want to make greater contributions to society, etc., I can also give you a real answer." Which one do you want to hear?"

"Eh! I ......" Xu Xincheng didn't expect Lucy to say this, let alone that he would face such a choice, and he was a little overwhelmed for a while.

"Steve, I need to make it clear to you that this is a big decision, a big decision, if you choose the former, then everything you hear will be official, if you choose the latter, then what you hear will be the real answers, it will be some truths about the future, and these real answers and the truths of the future involve a lot of my secrets. ”

Xu Xincheng's heart tightened.

Lucy paused for a moment and continued: "Before you make a choice, I am obligated to inform you that if you choose the latter, the real answer and the truth of the future will be completely beyond your expectations and imagination, they will add a lot of pressure to you, they will also change your view of your current work, they will change your view of the world, it will change your view of the future, this is a life-changing decision, so please think carefully." ”

"Ahh

He suddenly remembered that Lucy had mentioned a similar English phrase before, when she invited him to become the assistant to the chairman, she used "Career-changing Decision", which means "a choice that is enough to change his career", and at the moment he used "Life-changing Decision", which is much more important than the previous one, and he hurriedly asked: "Life-changing Decision?" It means a life-changing choice, right?"

"Yes. Lucy said: "I will mention these English phrases from time to time in the future, so in order to facilitate our future exchanges and communication, please let me take some time to elaborate on them first." ”

He nodded.

Lucy said: "Each of us is making one or another choice every day, making big or small choices, and each decision will have an impact on our daily life, work, relationships, family, etc., and some choices will even have an impact on our whole life."

In order to make it easier to distinguish, according to the magnitude of the impact, we can divide the choice into 5 levels, which are Minimal Decision, Minor Decision, Medium Decision, Major Decision, and Maximum Decision, that is, the very small choice, the small choice, the medium choice, the major decision, and the most important and significant decision. ”

"Understood. It's a really good distinction and it's clear. He liked Lucy's careful differentiation of things, and the last time she had a meeting, she had divided important tasks into five levels, and he thought it was a really good way to distinguish things.

Lucy continues: "To make a second distinction for you to understand, we can also broadly divide the choices into two broad categories depending on the degree of certainty.

First, uncertain choices.

In the vast majority of cases, the vast majority of the choices that each of us makes every day are 'uncertain choices', and when we make these choices, we have no way to judge in advance the degree of their influence, and we cannot accurately distinguish their levels in advance.

Because the impact of these choices on us is uncertain and chaotic.

To illustrate better, we can give an example.

Xiao Ming is a first-year college student, and every night when he goes to the evening self-study, he will come to an intersection on campus, and he has two choices, A chooses to keep going forward, to the next intersection and then to the right, and B chooses to go to the right, to the next intersection and then to the left. Both routes will get him to the classroom he wants to go. In the vast majority of cases, it is only a decision with a minimum decision, because whether he chooses A or B, it has almost no impact on his life, his studies, and his life.

On Sunday, Xiao Ming chooses when to get up in the morning, what to eat when he goes to the school cafeteria to buy breakfast, whether to go back to the dormitory or go out shopping after breakfast, which mall to go to when he goes out, which stores to visit when he comes to the mall, which products to buy when he buys things in the store, which restaurant to choose at lunchtime, which dishes to order when he orders, and so on.

These choices, in the vast majority of cases, are graded as Minimal Decisions, and each of us has to make hundreds, thousands, or more, of them every day.

One Monday night, Xiao Ming came to that intersection again, this is the 101st time, if Xiao Ming still chooses route A, nothing will happen, but that day, he suddenly decided to choose route B. By chance, he met a female classmate he liked, and the two met in this way, and later developed into boyfriend and girlfriend.

For Xiao Ming, these 101 choices have become a Major Decision, or even a Maximum Decision, which has had a huge impact on his life, study, and life.

When making these 101 choices, Xiao Ming had no way to judge the degree of influence in advance, and there was no way to accurately distinguish their levels in advance.

All in all, we define such a choice as an 'uncertain choice'. ”

Hearing this, Xu Xincheng suddenly thought of one thing, the night he first met Lucy, when he walked out of the company gate, at that moment, if he didn't make the decision to go for a walk by the Pearl River, then he wouldn't have met Lucy, and if he couldn't meet Lucy, then ......

He couldn't help but feel a shock in his heart, and secretly sighed in his heart: "Oh my God! That inadvertent decision is a Maximum Decision for me, a most important and important decision. ”