■ YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE My first big breakthrough in life came when I discovered that I could learn anything I needed to learn to achieve any goal I could set for myself. My second breakthrough was when I realized that I was completely responsible for myself and everything that hap- pened to me. No one was going to do anything for me. If I wanted something, it was completely up to me to do whatever was neces- sary to get it. If I had a problem or limitation, it was up to me to solve it or overcome it. I was on my own. The acceptance of personal responsibility for your life is the giant step from childhood to maturity. Prior to that decision, people criti- cize, complain, and blame others for their problems. After that deci- sion, they see themselves as the primary creative forces in their own lives
enzyme system is primarily responsible for that stretches beyond the explanation pro- increased tenderness during postmortem vided by the current calpain theory of post- storage (Koohmaraie et al. 1991; Uytterhaegen mortem tenderization. A growing body of et al. 1994; Goll et al. 2003; Koohmaraie and evidence suggests that multiple enzymes and Geesink 2006), it can be argued that calpains interdependent muscle factors may be neces- alone are not sufficient to fully explain post- sary to fully explain postmortem proteolysis mortem proteolysis and meat tenderization. and its link to tenderization. The remainder Questions regarding the role of calpains in of this chapter will focus on recent novel postmortem tenderization initially centered findings that contribute to a more complete on: (1) the observation that calpain activity understanding of the underlying mechanisms 92 Chapter 4
highly reliable cue as to when we will be better off saying yes instead of no. We are likely to use these lone cues when we don't have the inclination, time, energy, or cognitive resources to undertake a complete analysis of the situa- tion. When we are rushed, stressed, uncertain, indifferent, distracted, or fatigued, we tend to focus on less of the information available to us. When making deci- sions under these circumstances, we often revert to the rather primitive but neces- sary single-piece-of-good-evidence approach. l All this leads to an unnerving in- sight: With the sophisticated mental apparatus we have used to build world eminence as a species, we have created an environment so complex, fast-paced, and information-laden that we must increasingly deal with it in the fashion of the ani- mals we long ago transcended. Sometimes the consequences can be calamitous. Remember the FBI's infa-
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