From the course: Making Better Decisions by Thinking in Bets

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Refrain from resulting

Refrain from resulting

- [Man] And I want to hear where this sort of conflation occurs again and again, and it's bad news. - [Woman] I'll give you a variety of examples. - [Man] Let's do it. - [Woman] Right, you hire someone and they don't work out. "Ugh, I can't believe, we should have known." "That was such a bad hire." That would be an example. You launch a product and the product fails. "I should have known it, that was a terrible product to launch, why did I do that? That was so ridiculous!" Here's the opposite. You hire someone and they turn out great. "I'm so good at that." - [Man] "I'm a brilliant judge of talent!" - [Woman] Right! "I'm a brilliant judge of talent, you should bring me in for every hiring discussion we ever have, or vice versa." and I give a pretty detailed example actually, in the book "Following The Football Example". From business where a CEO that I was working with, was really down on himself for what he thought…

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