Read Thinking Fast & Slow by Daniel Kahneman. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11468377-thinking-fast-and-slow
Key takeaways
Key takeaways
- Take ample time when making big life decisions.
- Be suspicious of your intuitions. Vett your opinions.
- Make sure you are answering the REAL question, not substituting with another. Identify when you substitute.
- Ask yourself; do I really have all the information to answer this question? If not, what would it take to find it?
- Carefully curate non-leading questions in interviews and surveys, as anchoring, framing, and priming affect results.
- Cut your losses, and adapt fast. Resist the sunk cost fallacy.
- Happiness is a balance of long-term life satisfaction from the remembering self and short-term well-being of the experiencing self.