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	<title>MIND READERS DICTIONARY &#187; deciding</title>
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		<title>Plato: Why Democrats and Republicans drive each other crazy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 01:04:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Should I fight on?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Should I hold onto my dream or face reality?]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[All philosophy is &#8220;footnotes to Plato,&#8221; or so said philosopher Alfred North Whitehead. He was exaggerating, but I will say this. All human life (including this year&#8217;s elections) plays out Plato&#8217;s most famous story, but with two divergent endings. You have probably heard about Plato&#8217;s cave. Even if you haven&#8217;t, if you&#8217;ve seen The Matrix, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seven Wonderings of the Modern World: The human tough judgment calls</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/?p=970</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been doing Mind Readers Dictionary steadily for close to five years&#8211;one article, one idea per week. Only now am I getting around the stuff that started it all for me, the universal tough judgment calls at the heart of all the uncertainty we feel in any and every area of life. Last week I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Affirmation Bias: Before certainty, ask, &#8220;Compared to what?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-change-him/communication/affirmation-bias/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Apr 2006 21:41:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Should I take what he said to heart?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What's the moral thing to do here?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What's the spiritual thing to do?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cognitive dissonance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve argued elsewhere that being either open-minded or close-minded is intrinsically neither good nor bad. Both open-mindedness and close-mindedness have their benefits and costs. Open is great for exploring options but terrible for sticking with them. Conversely, closed is terrible for exploring options and great for sticking with them. The best allocation between open-minded and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just Fork-edit: While choosing, hold the fork; after choosing, lose it</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Mar 2006 18:57:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[choice]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[fork in the road]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=62</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just fork-editing is editing a branch off a decision fork you face, thereby making it possible to proceed as though there were no choice to be made. Just fork-editing is necessary. We all face too many choices. We can&#8217;t attend to them all, so of course we find ways to ignore many of the forks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mother of All Questions: The sound of one world chanting &#8220;hmmm&#8230;?&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2006 12:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Can I trust them?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[How should I handle it with my friend?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Should I expect less from them?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Which move helps my career?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Accept vs. Aspire]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=85</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of the time we have answers enough—no questions on our minds. When a question crowds in, it&#8217;s usually some variation on or aspect of this one—the mother of all questions: WHAT CAN I DO WITH WHAT I&#8217;M DEALT TO GET TO THE GOOD? At first it reads as generic and bland. But notice all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spin Doctor&#8217;s Hippocratic Oath: Spinning at the right time makes you smart but at the wrong time makes you a fool</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-change-him/communication/spin-doctors-hippocratic-oath/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2004 17:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve probably noticed that I&#8217;m fascinated by tough judgment calls, which I define as important speculative decisions that can&#8217;t be hedged. They&#8217;re speculative, because all available options have potential benefits and costs. They can&#8217;t be hedged, because the appropriate responses to the different options work at cross-purposes to each other; they are mutually undermining. Examples [...]]]></description>
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