I was two weeks into my job at an intelligence agency on September 11, 2001 when the world suddenly changed. The job I had been hired to do disappeared. I had a computer science degree; I came from a world of 1s and 0s, not people, families, and interpersonal dynamics.
They are chunks of knowledge that can be simplified and applied to better understand the world, by identify what information is relevant in any given situation, and th...
Risky career moves, what-was-I-thinking relationships, and just about every '80s fashion trend-most of us have made bad decisions in our lives. And while we're supposed to learn from our mistakes, living with the outcome of a bad decision doesn't necessarily mean that we're immune to repeating it. (See: recent '80s fashion revival.)
The gist: Stress is like kryptonite for good decision-making. But there are three things you can do to minimize its effect when you need to make smart choices. Mile 21. That's the point in every marathon where I ask myself, "Why am I doing this? This is dumb."