How to Make Smart Decisions Quickly and Easily in Life

We are all victims of memetic desire, and teal was just smart enough to embrace that fact. For the first 21 years of his life, i was on a path to become a trader at a bank,. Not because i knew what that meant, or if i would be any good at it. So where does that leave us? If we're all guilty of imitation, how do we leverage the good of it and make smart decisions quickly in life? How do we navigate the bad of tying our identities and therefore our happiness, to other people rather than our own intrinsic drivers and knowledge?