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Thanks to the revisionist power of memory to justify our decisions, by the time many couples divorce, they can’t remember why they married.
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People will pursue self-destructive courses of action to protect the wisdom of their initial decisions.
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285 |
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Understanding how the mind yearns for consonance and rejects information that questions our beliefs, decisions, or preferences not only teaches us to be open to the possibilities of error but also helps us let go of the need to be right.
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All of us will have hard decisions to make at times in our lives; not all of them will be right, and not all of them will be wise.
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311 |
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When we play with a finite mindset in the Infinite Game, we will continue to make decision that sabotage our own ambitions.
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When problems arise, performance lags, mistakes are made or unethical decisions are uncovered, Lazy Leadership chooses to put their efforts into building processes to fix the problems rather than building the support of their people.
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Bankruptcy is so often an act of suicide. When we look back at the decisions that put once successful companies on a path to bankruptcy, we discover an uncomfortably high number of leaders who were obsessed with the finite game.
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…if you decide it can’t be done, it’s not happening. Not by you, anyway.
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043 |
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…even if you put things off – you still have made a choice. You are voting for the status quo. You are voting to let them decide. You are voting to give up your own agency.
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059 |
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It’s actually all the ordinary decisions – the safe one, recommended by every expert, criticized by no one – that make us incredibly vulnerable in times of chaos and crisis.
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