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400: Making Better Decisions through Multiple Mental Models with Shane Parrish (Host of The Knowledge Project podcast)

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

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The Role of Emotional Physical State in Decision Making

People make worse decisions when they're more emotional, but people also tend to make better decisions or complicated sort of like analysis in the morning than in the afternoon. And that's a very powerful realization because it allows you to learn. If we're in a bad mood, we probably don't want to be making business decisions about the direction of our company. It just means that we have to account for emotions or time of day, right? That you're making decisions.

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