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Duckworth and Maughan discuss the science of decision-making, covering confirmation bias, the planning fallacy, and why writing down your reasoning before making a decision dramatically improves decision quality.
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Canon
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Duckworth recommends decision journaling: before making an important decision, write down your reasoning, your confidence level, and the evidence for and against. This written record exposes logical gaps, reveals emotional reasoning disguised as rational analysis, and creates accountability for future review.
Highlights
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Confirmation bias is not a bug but a feature of human cognition -- the brain evolved to confirm existing beliefs because changing beliefs was metabolically expensive for our ancestors
Duckworth explains confirmation bias from an evolutionary perspective: the brain seeks confirming evidence and ignores disconfirming evidence not because humans are stupid but because constantly updating beliefs requires enormous cognitive energy. For most of human history, sticking with existing beliefs was the efficient default.Was this useful?