If two competing goods come to a head, the first question you ask yourself is if you're playing a zero-sum game. When two goals hint to you that their accomplishment might be inhibited by nothing other than the other, you start to think in terms of a matter of degree. Do obstacles exist that may keep keep me from achieving both goals, instead forcing me to choose one over the other? Tempting is compromise- going halfsies. But what you might actually want is 75%/75%. But 75 plus 75 is 150%. So you kind-of let down the expectation incrementally, maybe 10% at a time, until you fall below the half-goal 100, at which point you realize that you will achieve neither your goals, in which case the complete abandonment of one becomes more advantageous.
Two roads diverged in a wood, but why? Was there a necessary reason for their divergence? Why not be instead two sides of the same road? Wanting to walk down both, will you achieve neither?
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