9 month ago
deusx : The Advantages of Closing a Few Doors - New York Times - "Xiang Yu was a Chinese general in the third century B.C. who took his troops across the Yangtze River into enemy territory and performed an experiment in decision making. He crushed his troops’ cooking pots and burned their ships."
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27 month ago
43folders : Marketplace: Why do we make bad money decisions? - "And what they've found in these experiments is that the people with what we would normally regard as brain damage make more rational and sensible choices."
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27 month ago
merlinmann : Juggling Priorities : Sundog - "It turns out learning to juggle priorities is lot like learning to juggle balls."
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34 month ago
erikbenson : 'Sleeping on it' best for complex decisions - I wonder if there are guidelines for ways to prime your unconscious mind solve problems in your sleep.
plasticbag : 'Sleeping on it' best for complex decisions - this may be more true of me than other people... - “At some point in our evolution, we started to make decisions consciously, and we’re not very good at it. We should learn to let our unconscious handle the complicated things"
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