
#68 Daniel Kahneman: Putting Your Intuition on Ice
The Knowledge Project
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Making Decisions: Thinking of Options as Candidates
Decades ago, the military used a unique method to evaluate soldiers: closing their eyes. Surprisingly, this approach yielded better results than traditional methods. This idea became the basis for a book on decision-making. The key is to break options into dimensions, evaluate each separately, and then form an intuition. Rapid intuitions are often unreliable.
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