The upshot: what we become depends literally upon all that happens to us over a lifetime, and soberingly, upon the sum total of choices that we make: to smoke or not to smoke, to exercise regularly or not, etc.
We become the sum of the choices we make over time; those choices determine the kind of person we end up being--and how the world sees and values us.
The sum of the choices was used to generate a score from -9 (nine choices against screening) to +9 (nine choices in favor of screening).
Egyptians remark that a lot of their countrymen who spend a few years working in Saudi Arabia return home as devout Salafists.Personal religious choices such as these are not directly political, but the sum of these choices influences the trajectory of the Arab world.
You just make the best choices possible and suddenly you've done it for 30 years and your career is the sum of those choices".
Though the show's dramatic pleasures are ultimately modest, its willingness to portray single womanhood as something beyond a sum of consumer choices or the embodiment of a disabling passivity feels useful and perhaps even necessary, the right kind of counterprogramming to balance the mood of the moment.
Those decisions might not seem like watershed events, but the sum of these choices is what constitutes your life.
Because rats varied in the extent to which they explored the maze, we also analyzed a composite percent correct measure which was the number of correct choices (rewards retrieved) divided by the total number of choices made (the sum of the number of rewards retrieved/reference memory errors, and errors of commission).
"It is based on an existential view of life, that you are the sum total of your choices, In regular school you don't get too much choice.
But that's just a word, it really comes down to the decisions we make and the choices we make as individuals that define who we are -- the sum total of those choices.
