Think for Yourself

 

CONCLUSION

Restoring Common Sense

Many of the pressures discussed in these pages show no signs of dissipating. Information, data, and choice continue to expand in exponential ways leading to a constant and never-ending sense of drowning. If there was too much to know yesterday, there’s more today, and tomorrow will have yet more. There is no way to catch up.

And yet the promise of optimized decision making in the face of overwhelming choice is as alluring as ever. All indicators suggest the availability of a perfect selection, one that does more than merely providing a good outcome. We live in constant fear of missing out on ideal choices. But because we cannot optimize every decision, we turn (with high hopes) to those who know more than ...