Workbook Edits for “Making Good Decisions”: Vol. 1 – Part I: Our Shared Humanity, Section#17: From Our Shared Humanity to Differentiated Individual Decisions
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· See below the downloadable pdf file for this two-page section, as well as a summary description of the section.
Section#17: From Our Shared Humanity to Differentiated Individual Decisions - This section brings closure to the content sections of this workbook – Volume 1 - Part I: Our Shared Humanity that highlights, and maps our shared evolutionary features, up to the point where choices and individual differences begin to affect making good individual, business, and investment decisions. The next workbook for Volume 1 - Part II: “Individual Decisions” explores making good individual decisions in the context of our Shared Humanity, and this workbook for Volume 1 – Part I: Our Shared Humanity continues with (i) A Glossary of Authors, and “Terms-of-Art”, (ii) Author Profiles, and (iii) Definitions of “Terms of Art” mentioned in these content sections. The Epilogue for Volume 1 Includes this Summary of this Workbook’s Content Sections: (i) “Brains” evolved as “Emulators” of reality to manage accurate “Motions” with precise “Predictions”, thus making good decisions starts with making good “Predictions”. (ii) Making good individual “Predictions” requires individual autonomy for mobility, as well as “Two-in-One-Mind” thinking to avoid forced errors induced by external, controlling forces such as McLuhan’s “Extensions of Man”, or unforced errors from within due to unexamined internal thought processes. (iii) Good individual decisions require “Ecological Rationality”: Matching the “Perceptions” and “Predictions” of the “Decision-Maker” with the structure of the “Task Environment”, despite the level of “Confusion” that comes from “Willful Ignorance”, Error & Deceit. This matching includes: (i) “Practice for perfection” in the presence of “Small Worlds” cause & effect, (ii) “Use checklists for pattern-matching” in the “Middle-Muddle”, and “Follow processes that improve the odds” in the “Large World”.
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