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What this book knows
Human decision-making is systematically biased, bounded, and constructive — and knowing the machinery lets you work with it rather than against it.
mind-and-cognition
We aren't omniscient, foresighted, and economically rational; we're just humans, simple and flawed, trying to make our way through a complex world.
VLA-A70202B6-RC-068Our brains solve this challenge in an ingenious way: They take advantage of the structure in the world around us.
VLA-A70202B6-RC-064We don't always know what factors are going to be relevant to a decision… we have to construct a common currency for value.
VLA-A70202B6-RC-060self-and-identity
Outcomes are good or bad not based on some absolute value, but on their relative value compared to some reference point.
VLA-A70202B6-RC-029Our subjective sense of probability doesn't match the objective reality… we construct stories about what will happen.
VLA-A70202B6-RC-039ambition-and-status
Incentives can also signal that someone doesn't trust us to make the right decision — and so the incentive backfires.
VLA-A70202B6-RC-124Illuminates
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