A few weeks back, when reading Nudge, I came across the concept they introduced about invisible energy.  

Why do we avoid making decisions? In some cases, it has to do with the choice architecture of the thing to be decided upon. We might not have any opportunity to practice our options.  Thaler and Sunstein say, "Practice makes perfect (or at least better). Unfortunately, some...

A little story time. A few months back, Damien took one of our vehicles in for its annual state inspection to a local place that does inspections, but it’s primary business is tire sales. It passed inspection, and he drove it home. On the way home, he noticed that the tire...

I found some interesting contrasts in business advice today that I initially took as conflicting advice. However, after pondering it a bit, I realized that the advice compliments, not conflicts.  

Why is it that more often than not, when we are given good advice from someone who has more knowledge, expertise, and/or experience in the area than we do, we don’t follow said advice? This has been heavy on my mind for the past few days, and I am putting this out there in...

Choices. There appear to be many kinds of choices - Good choices. Bad choices. No choices. But are there really different kinds?

The overall thread I seem to be following today is about reframing.

I subscribe to Ozan Varol’s newsletter, and yesterday, he had a profound message that I think I will find ways to incorporate into my personal and business life. He said, “Instead of asking ‘What do you...

Kahneman talks about two selves in how we experience the world—the experiencing self (essentially the “being present” self) and the remembering self (essentially the “living in the past” self). 

Damien and I just had a most interesting philosophical conversation about knowledge. 

We talked about something random, and he said (jokingly), “Everybody knows that.” 

It got me thinking: is there any universal knowledge that “everybody” actually knows?

After much thought...

Enhancing Decision-Making with The 6 Thinking Hats

About a year ago, Damien found Edward de Bono’s work on The 6 Thinking Hats for decision-making strategy. We implemented our own process within the business and have found it very useful when making big decisions (even for...