“Let the hindsight of your future self be the foresight of today’s self.” - Shane Parrish TKP episode 37I was listening Shane Parrish interview Annie Duke on the The Knowledge Project the other day. During the interview, Shane summarized a point Annie made, and the summary was too good not to write down and share with you. In December, of I don’t know what year, I blogged about “Future You” which was inspired by Annie Duke’s book, Thinking in Bets, and I wish I heard this podcast at the time I was reading the book. What I love about Shane’s summary is the practicality. Imagine this.You are confronted with a decision and imagining how it might end.You project yourself into the future, imagining you made the decision and you’re experiencing that “hindsight is 20/20 phenomenon.”You take advantage of that phenomenon and you identify, “what is the that perfect 20/20 hindsight? Instead of doing what I did, what do I wish that I did?” Take your answers to the “hindsight 20/20” question and bring them to present you. Make that your go-forward plan!Celebrate because you’re winning at making decisions.I wish heuristics was a class I took at all levels of my education. Imagine how many decisions could have been improved through a decades-long study in decision making and bias?What friends to make? Who to date?What classes to take?What college do I go to?What do I major in?Do I take a student loan or not?Do I postpone college?What if I took out a credit card?I could go on. Hindsight is 20/20 I suppose.

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