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#7 Venkatesh Rao: The Three Types of Decision Makers

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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The Red Queen's Arms Race

i think it's probably a sign of a very healthy mental process if you are able to create and sustain a red queen's arms race between sort of your mindful engagement of external reality data. And the kind of decision making that you and i seem to enjoy has a bias. It tends to preferentially, sort of create momentum and inertia in the internal part,. The thinking part, and not so much in the engagement part. This is how you discover new stuff... Exploratory reading is what creates cracks in your sort of secure memtero morals, and allows you to see new things. Thers diptish aspect to it.

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