From the course: Cultivating Mental Agility
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Learning from the past
- He who fails to learn history is doomed to repeat it. You've probably heard that before and it's true. If we understand patterns of how things work, we can make better predictions about the future and better predictions lead to better decisions. But that all goes out the window if we're not really learning. For many of us, and this is a common human trait, we actually mis-remember the past over time. It gets overwritten with new knowledge, new information and we forget our original position and assumptions. Your colleague mentions how much you hated the idea of going to a subscription model back when it was first suggested, but you don't remember that! It always seemed like a great idea to you, right? Well, it's hard to say. And that's why one of the tools you can employ to become more mentally agile, train yourself to learn from the past is a decision journal. Anytime you faced a meaningful decision at work or in your…
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