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One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives.

Hugh Mackay

One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives.

Tags: change, world, choice, choices

Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.

Hugh Mackay

Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.

Tags: dating, life, relationship, people

About Author
Hugh Mackay may refer to:

Hugh Mackay (general) (c. 1640–1692), Scottish general who served during the Revolution of 1688
Hugh Mackay of Bighouse, 18th century Scottish soldier
Hugh Mackay, 14th Lord Reay (1937–2013), member of the British House of Lords
Hugh Mackay (Quebec politician) (1832–1890), businessperson and politician in Quebec
Hugh Mackay (footballer) (1867–?), English footballer
Hugh Mackay (social researcher) (born 1938), Australian social researcher
Hugh Mackay (Charlotte County, New Brunswick politician) (died 1848), politician in New Brunswick
Hugh Mackay (Kings County, New Brunswick politician) (1887–1957), Canadian politician
Hugh MacKay (Nova Scotia politician), Canadian politician
Hugh Colin MacKay, Canadian Surgeon General

The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal literacy as a central goal of our education system, or are we bold enough to see what's actually happening...

Hugh Mackay

The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal literacy as a central goal of our education system, or are we bold enough to see what's actually happening...

Tags: education, culture, goal, fight

The underlying message of the Lancet article is that if you want to understand aggressive behaviour in children, look to the social and emotional environment in which they are growing up, and the valu...

Hugh Mackay

The underlying message of the Lancet article is that if you want to understand aggressive behaviour in children, look to the social and emotional environment in which they are growing up, and the valu...

Tags: experience, children, growing up

I'm in total sympathy with Dick Smith's sentiments I only wish there were grounds for saying we Australians would never tolerate such appalling treatment of refugees being carried out in our name.

Hugh Mackay

I'm in total sympathy with Dick Smith's sentiments I only wish there were grounds for saying we Australians would never tolerate such appalling treatment of refugees being carried out in our name.

Tags: sympathy, name, wish, saying

A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued s...

Hugh Mackay

A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued s...

Tags: easter, autumn, day, spring

Perhaps it's the people whose lives have taken sudden new twists - people who have learned to embrace the creative possibilities of change - who stand the best chance of penetrating life's mysteries.

Hugh Mackay

Perhaps it's the people whose lives have taken sudden new twists - people who have learned to embrace the creative possibilities of change - who stand the best chance of penetrating life's mysteries.

Tags: life, change, best