Farsighted How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most

And it's actually going to dovetail with a season or a story arc that we're doing this fall on American Innovation. So, Farsighted is a book about decision-making, complex decision-making, long-term decision-making.

Today Steven Johnson author of Far Sighted is going to help us hone the process and get better at the skill of decision making.

the process of making decisions hasn't really evolved much in I don't know 100 years.

the only tool that most of us have for making complex decisions like that's the vast majority of people if they're ever taught anything about decision-making it's yeah right down to pros on one side and cons and other and see which list is longer which is better than nothing probably but it's so limited

it's almost like okay this tell me the show isn't just about like consider multiple options when making a decision right like people are going on where's the beef but people rarely do it that's the thing and they don't kind of realize it in they don't say okay let's have this period where we're just really keeping our mind open and we're deliberately trying to explore other kinds of options that are out there

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Today Steven Johnson, author of Far Sighted, is going to help us hone the process and get better at the skill of decision making.

the process of making decisions hasn't really evolved much in I don't know 100 years.

the only tool that most of us have for making complex decisions like that's the vast majority of people if they're ever taught anything about decision-making it's yeah right down to pros on one side and cons and other and see which list is longer which is better than nothing probably but it's so limited

that was kind of the quest that I went on in writing far-sighted as to figure out like what is the kind of the state-of-the-art in decision-making theory or science and to what extent can we like actually use these things in the real world

Stephen thank you so much it's been a great show been a fun interesting show and of course decision making is always something that if you're like able to get one percent better at it if that extrapolates or sort of ripples through your whole life well that's a worthy pursuit