The Second Rule of Smart Decision-Making: Check Your Personal Biases
Knowing that cognitive biases exist and that they are crucial to account for is necessary but incomplete.
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Knowing that cognitive biases exist and that they are crucial to account for is necessary but incomplete.
Knowing that a values hierarchy improves your decisions is one thing; actually constructing a reliable one is…
Plenty of values hierarchies look impressive on paper and fail completely in practice. The gap between a hier…
Placing adventure at the top of your values hierarchy is a consequential choice with sweeping implications fo…
Abstract principles about valuing adventure become genuinely useful only when you watch them applied to a con…
It is easy to treat core values as abstractions that float somewhere above the practical business of living.
The choice between a safe, secure job and a risky once-in-a-lifetime adventure is one of the most agonising d…
For many people, the choice is not the dramatic all-or-nothing leap between a safe career and a wild adventur…
Deciding that you want an exciting life is the easy part; navigating the specific career risks that an exciti…
There is a particular kind of decision that demands choosing uncertainty over certainty — not because the unc…
There comes a moment in many lives when, after all the analysis is done and the case is genuinely made, what…
Worrying about what other people think of your decisions is one of the most common ways that capable, intelli…