WWMPFCD?
Winkletter • 16 Apr 2025 •
Sometimes, when facing a difficult decision, it helps to have a role model in mind. When you’re confronted with a choice, you can just simulate the actions of a respected figure and follow their example.
- WWJD? What would Jesus do?
- WWBD? What would Buddha do?
- WWJCVDD? What would Jean-Claude Van Damme do?
These days I find myself asking WWMPFCD? What would my prefrontal cortex do (if I let it run the show?) After all, I already know what I should be doing. Why simulate a whole human being? I just need to ask my PFC what choice it would make if it didn’t have to deal with all the other nonsense in my head.
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JCVD is the man! I like how we are all fixated on him more than Jesus or Buddha. 🤣 I would suggest WWMFSD–What would my future self do?
@haideralmosawi You could have had a future doing YouTube reaction videos.
@therealbrandonwilson May he never screw up his legacy with a stupid tweet. 🤲
Haha! Do you feel like it’s helping? I usually ask myself: how would the ideal version of me handle this (I guess: WWTIHD, or the more universal, WWTIVOMD 😜)? I sometimes think: If I want to handle 10x the challenge, how will I handle this challenge now?
Fun fact: I used to be a huge fan of the Muscles from Brussels when I was a teen! I even gave a school presentation about him, including snippets from his movies (that were very poorly edited because I thought the entire movie was cool so I ended up not cutting out much and let the movies speak for me during my presentation. The teacher stopped me and berated me for my style of presentation 😭)