#MakingBetterDecisions, #ConsciousApproach, #focusonwhatmatters, #Wealth, #Careers “Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.” — Benjamin Franklin I lost my grandmother last week. Death of a closed one always left me pondering on the purpose of life. I don’t think there can be a certified right…

……..what do you measure and how often? “It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.” Welcome to this week’s blog where I talk about the importance of measuring right things as opposed to measuring things right, particularly in today’s world where with…

“In cricket, a batter should not look to hit a boundary off of every ball. Afterall, a batter cannot get any more runs once s/he is out.” Welcome to this week’s blog where I write on a category of inadvertent decisions that corner us into fragile situations. …

“The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn’t care too much.” — Nassim Taleb Welcome to this week’s blog. In the last blog, I made a case that simple solutions stand better chance in dealing effectively with complex and dynamic situations. In this blog I…

“The future is better dealt with using assumptions than forecasts.” — Russell L. Ackoff Welcome to this week’s blog. In the last few blogs, I had been writing, ad nauseum, about how the cognitive wiring in our brains compels us into making suboptimal decisions and what we can do to…

In the last few blogs, I have been hammering on the point that evolution bestowed us with a host of mental short-cuts or heuristics that served us well over millions of years but are not being necessarily suitable in today’s world. …

“Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Continuing on from my previous blog, here I introduce a few commonly misused mental heuristics. But before jumping into them, a little preamble on “thinking” itself. A disclaimer: I write this blog, and for that matter…

“Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein Welcome to this week’s blog. As has been alluded to in one of the previous blogs (here), one way to understand factors that influence our decision making is to categorize them into internal (or bottom-up) and external (or top…

Thanks Surya for your kind words and even more so for your astute comment. With regards to the "informing" characteristic, I proposed that a good decision should allow you to understand yourself more and also understand the world around you more. Let me try to illustrate this point with an…