There is no more effective way to destroy the leadership potential of young officers and noncommissioned officers than to deny them opportunities to make decisions appropriate for their assignments.
This ubiquitous feature of human psychology is a process known as adaptation. Simply put, we get used to things, and then we start to take them for granted.
Thus, from cradle to grave, having control over one’s life matters.
What we don’t realize is that the very option of being allowed to change our minds seems to increase the chances that we will change our minds.
When people are looking for causes of failure, they are predisposed to one of these positions. Suppose you apply for a job, but fail to get hired. Here are some possible answers you give.Global: I don...
Adding options can be detrimental to our well-being. Because we don’t put rejected options out of our minds,
Choose less and feel better.
Information costs, is not the way to maximize one’s investment. The true maximizer would determine just how much information seeking was the amount needed to lead to a very good decision.
Keeping options open seems to extract a psychological price. When we can change our minds, apparently we do less psychological work to justify the decision we’ve made, reinforcing the chosen alternati...
Philosopher Isaiah Berlin made an important distinction between negative liberty and positive liberty. Negative liberty is freedom from—freedom from constraint, freedom from being told what to do by o...
We have too many choices, too many decisions, too little time to do what is really important.
You seek and accept only the best, you are a maximizer.
As advertising professor James Twitchell puts it, Ads are what we know about the world around us.
As the magnitude of the gain increases, the amount of additional satisfaction people get out of each additional unit decreases. The shape of this curve conforms to what economists have long talked abo...
As the number of choices grows further, the negatives escalate until we become overloaded. At this point, choice no longer liberates, but debilitates. It might even be said to tyrannize,
As we see reversible marriages come apart, we may think to ourselves, how fortunate the couple was to have a flexible attitude toward marital commitment, given that it didn’t work out. It might not oc...
Being able to criticize our own certainties is often a painful struggle, demanding some courage as we try to stand back and impartially judge ourselves and our own responsibility.
Both books point out how the growth of material affluence has not brought with it an increase in subjective well-being. But they go further. Both books argue that we are actually experiencing a fairly...
Bottom line—the options we consider usually suffer from comparison with other options.
But if unrestricted freedom can impede the individual’s pursuit of what he or she values most, then it may be that some restrictions make everyone better off. And if constraint sometimes affords a kin...
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