Why we make bad decisions
- We ignore the warning signs - feeling tired, emotional, distracted, in a rush...working in the "hurry up" culture.
- We focus on solving the wrong problem or fail to look at it in a broader sense.
- When we work on second-hand information loaded with biases, edits, and interpretations.
- When we don't learn from past mistakes and are more busy protecting our ego. True experience isn't calculated in years, but in how much your learnt & grew.
- We choose to make decisions that are defendable over those that we know are a better choice.
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