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Sometimes we just need to realize that even if we are certain we aren’t biased in any way, that nothing extraneous is affecting our judgments and choices, chances are that we are not acting in an entirely rational or objective fashion. In that realization—that oftentimes it is best not to trust your own judgment—lies the key to improving your

Electric motors are one type of electric actuator (devices that convert electrical energy into mechanical motion). Actuators themselves are a subset of transducers or energy-conversion devices, which convert energy from one form to another.

The Electric Stack converts electricity into motion , but also into heat (induction stoves), into magnetic

The ultimate lesson of the question was that detailed prior knowledge was less important than a way of thinking.

Since we can’t improve our people-reading skills that much, we have to focus our efforts on making others more readable.

You want to ask energy-enhancing questions that get you engaged in the information. Ask yourself, “How is this relevant and applicable to my life right now? How will this information help me achieve my goals? How can I apply this information to improve my work?

The outside view and the risk policy are remedies against two distinct biases that affect many decisions: the exaggerated optimism of the planning fallacy and the exaggerated caution induced by loss aversion.

That’s all a potential insight really is: the recognition of some potential split and the opportunity to move closer to the utopian end of the spectrum. A potential insight expresses the distance between those two universes and, once validated, allows us to start understanding the gap and how to design interventions that bridge it.

The world is not golf, and most of it isn’t even tennis. As Robin Hogarth put it, much of the world is “Martian tennis.” You can see the players on a court with balls and rackets, but nobody has shared the rules. It is up to you to derive them, and they are subject to change without notice.

Checklists, formulas, structured procedures: those are your best bet—at least, according to Kahneman. The Holmes solution? Habit, habit, habit. That, and motivation.