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Making Informed Decisions

This chapter is all about decision literacy, an awareness of how we as humans make decisions. Decision literacy involves understanding our decision-making processes with the goal of making more rational, informed decisions. It involves understanding how we assess potential decisions, explore various decision options, assess potential outcomes, and ultimately select the best or ideal course of action.

This may be the most crucial chapter in the book since the success of our personal and professional careers, not to mention the survival of our species, depends upon our ability to make informed decisions in a world ...

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