Decisions in sentence

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And it felt a little like drunkenness, just making bad decisions, just fluidity, lack of solidity.

But unfortunately, this is how too many business decisions are made today.

And it's really marvelous, because when these animals forage in the wild, they have to make over a hundred camouflaging decisions in a two-hour forage, and they do that twice a day.

Here's another example of how comparing to the past can befuddle our decisions.

This problem of shifting comparisons can bedevil our attempts to make rational decisions.

People have a lot of trouble making decisions about things that will happen at different points in time.

One of the problems with making decisions about the far future and the near future is that we imagine the near future much more vividly than the far future.

To the extent that you can equalize the amount of detail that people put into the mental representations of near and far future, people begin to make decisions about the two in the same way.

It's part of the phenomenon I called "spontaneous self-organization," where, like in ant colonies, little decisions made on the micro level actually have a big impact on the macro level.

It was the government and political actors that made the decisions that created the school funding formulas, that made it so the school I went to receive less per pupil spending than schools in more affluent areas.

And I started thinking about some of these decisions I have to make between, like, serif versus san-serif.

Even though most indications for treatments in the world are standardized, there is a lot of unnecessary variation of treatment decisions, especially in the Western world.

You need to get in the front seat with your doctor and start sharing decisions on where to go.

We find 80 percent of their beef is fake, and it's giving us encephalitis, and we're making terrible decisions.

What we need to make better decisions about the future are tools that can aid our foresight, tools that can help us think ahead.

But the people who are wrestling with these questions and making these decisions about their families are thinking about very different questions: How do I keep my daughter safe?

At the end of each meeting, we'd reach decisions and agreements that would last at least until the next meeting.

I thought that if I stopped attending these meetings anymore, the system would collapse, (Laughter) but my family continued with the meetings, and they often made decisions that I disliked.

But I could not challenge these decisions, because I was not attending the meetings, and thus had no right to go against it.

And they should all have an equal opportunity to contribute to the decision-making process and influence the decisions that will affect their lives directly or indirectly.

Every family is its own mini political system that is usually not democratic, because parents make decisions that affect all members of the family, while the kids have very little to say.

Similarly, politicians make decisions that affect the whole nation, while the people have very little say in them.

Politics is about having conversations, including difficult conversations, that lead to decisions.

As societies, we have to make collective decisions that will shape our future.

And we all know that when we make decisions in groups, they don't always go right.

So how do groups make good decisions?

With my colleague, Dan Ariely, we recently began inquiring into this by performing experiments in many places around the world to figure out how groups can interact to reach better decisions.

Good collective decisions require two components: deliberation and diversity of opinions.

But in a time when the world's problems are more complex and people are more polarized, using science to help us understand how we interact and make decisions will hopefully spark interesting new ways to construct a better democracy.

And, especially if you regard these two as deep truths to live by and to inform your life decisions, then they seem a little bit to conflict with each other.

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