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#486: How to Get Better at Making Life-Changing Decisions

The Art of Manliness

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The Problem With the Pros and Cons List

Darwin proposed a pros and cons like list. But he had one correction to it, which is really important,. He had a kind of a rudimentary scheme for what we now call waiting - i.e. giving a weight to each of the values that are listed in your pro-and-con list. Franklin proposed this system where you create your list and then you kind of cross out ones that are equal and weight to you.

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