Admitting Our No Steps.

“We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.”
— Aldous Huxley, Island

Here’s the reality.

We will rarely follow the Five Steps to a Good Decision.

The Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman has said that even as a lifelong researcher of bias, he still experiences the same biases — he is not less biased, just better at recognising bias in others.

So how about we just learn from spotting the Five Steps, or the lack of them, in others’ decision making?