Farsighted
How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most
by Steven Johnson
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Recommended by 5 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Psychology, and Personal Development.
The hardest choices are also the most consequential. So why do we know so little about how to get them rightBig, lifealtering decisions matter so much more than the decisions we make every day, and they're also the most difficult: where to live, whom to marry, what to believe, whether to start a company, how to end a war. There's no onesizefits...
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