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How To Make Smarter Decisions & Why Some Vices Are Actually Good

Something You Should Know

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How to Stop the Unintended Consequences of Your Decisions

There are so many cognitive biases and kind of influence models, like your refrency and fear missing outright phomo, that play on your behaviour. And by naming some of these things and then really committing to them, you can start to escape these kind of mind traps that you have. Let's talk about unintended consequences. You know a law will go into effect and have unintended consequences. But as you point out, there are unintended consequences of our decisions as well. There's a really interesting one called the strisand effect - which is effectively, the cover up can be worse than the crime. Like if barbera strisentt just let it go, probably no one would have

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