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Making Bad Decisions: Wrong Or Incomplete Information

We normally trust people and believe we have the right information. The resulting outcome is akin to chinese whispers, the phenomenon when information is passed on to a lot of people in a chain, leading to distortion and falsification.

The thumb rule here is to seek information from credible, first hand sources.

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The biggest problem in life isn`t the problem itself, but how people act upon it.

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