I'm not talking about rational, jump-into-a-pit-of-snakes fears; but rather, those irrational situations I'd spent my life avoiding.
SN: There's never a moment where it feels comfortable or rational to jump.
Professors Alon Brav, Wei Jiang, Frank Partnoy and Randall S. Thomas attribute this jump to rational expectations that managers will put on some speed.
It has been argued that designers often jump between "rational periods of thought and the imaginative periods they might identify as creative thinking" (Watkins, 1988, p. 336).
"We are trying to apply rational scientific engineering approach to this problem" says Dr Jump.
Jump on him.' " It truly is like a bazaar, where rational self-interest is hardly the rule of the day.
It's about hunches, longings, and what-the-hell - a jumping into life that's often quite at odds with our rational selves.
So, when it prods, Railtrack jumps.From society's point of view, though, it is far from rational to spend 150 times as much on saving a life on the railways as on saving a life on the roads.
And that jumping around has as much to do with the giving of pleasure as any kind of rational thing.
In a primary or multiparty election, sure, jumping on the bandwagon rather than wasting your vote on a marginal candidate may be a rational tactical-voting decision; but not in a two-candidate race.
Most people would say no, that's a rational fear, but it's like how most people who are afraid of heights are actually afraid that they'll jump from heights.
