Knowing the origin of the word helps choosing and deciding. The hard part isn't figuring out which choice you like more, it's which you're more ready to kill, but most people focus on which they like more.

I wrote a series of posts on using this awareness to make choosing and deciding easier, with graphs: https://joshuaspodek.com/choose-easier-visualizing-choices and https://joshuaspodek.com/choose-easier-visualizing-choices-2.