Farsighted

Book cover of Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most

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Plenty of books offer useful advice on how to get better at making quick-thinking, intuitive choices. But what about more consequential decisions, the ones that affect our lives for years, or centuries, to come? Our most powerful stories revolve around these kinds of decisions: where to live, whom to marry,…

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Why read it?

1 author picked Farsighted as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Rick Szostak

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This is a pleasure to read and full of good ideas.

Most of the book deals with errors in how people make future-oriented decisions, and how we can overcome these errors. Yet the author also has good advice about how we should go about predicting plausible futures. He notes that experts with a flexible worldview make better predictions than those who follow a narrow belief or ideology.

From Rick's list on the future.