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Russ Roberts on Making Better Decisions

The Daily Stoic

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Darwin's List of the Pros and Cons

In many cases, the biggest decision one will make in their life is who they're going to be with. Darwin famously makes his list when he's deciding about getting married. He says things like, better than a dog anyway to come home to. In these kind of decisions, I call them wild problems where you don't have access to any data and often very little information on what's the right thing to do. You're making a leap in the dark.

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