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Saturday Aug. 18, 2018

I wondered whether anyone has ever done studies about ‘when people make the best decisions’.

Are we better at certain times of day, times of year, at different altitudes, days of the week … etc.?

I went Googling …

My query produced 617 million results pages in 0.47 seconds.

Those top 10 listings, probably all paying some fee for their high rankings, included ‘five tips’, ‘six tips’ and ‘9 habits’. And the ‘Top 10 Best Decision Making Books’. What I was seeking, and did not find (not yet) is some reporting on research that reveals when, where and how we make the best decisions. One of those top listings touted that 250 yr. old Ben Franklin method – of listing pros v. cons. Fine, but I fail to grasp that a 250 yr. old method is a ‘best practice’ today much less for a future Franklin could never have contemplated.

Figuring out anything, that which confounds us, is made more difficult (you’d think it would be made easier) by excess time, leisure or beautiful weather – these leisure, tranquility and soft breezes distract us from our more likely quicker reactions (because we are usually too busy/pressed for time) distracts us, prevents us from quick ‘blink’ decisions in favour of ones that can be made over a cool beverage on a hot lazy afternoon …

Now I’m really curious. I can’t believe there isn’t some ‘leading edge’ intelligence on this. There is so much hype-about Artificial Intelligence (AI), no doubt programmed by Human Intelligence (HI), there must be a ‘best practices’ school of thought on making better decisions, better ways of getting to aye-aye …


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