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I didn't recognize I was good at advising others on their careers, nor was I aware I had such a strong passion for this job until after many career - shaping decisions had already made (aka law school).

Entrepreneurs who possess this valuable knowledge can prioritize better, make more efficient architecture decisions, and intelligently push back on development projects that aren't necessary.

«The work that they've done designing and executing on their engine is really impressive,» says Jory Bell, partner at Playground, which had former SpaceX employees study Relativity's architecture before deciding to invest in its Series A. «And every technical decision they've made is optimized not only to serve their initial market, but to scale up as well.»

The crew member then questions Kirk on why he made that decision, since he didn't have any information that would indicate that left was a better choice than right.

One of the sub-topics I touched on was the fact that leaders need not only to make good ethical decisions, but also to help others make good ethical decisions.

After that first year where I made the game that didn't do very well, I actually tried to get a job in a triple - A game company and they didn't hire me, which I think was a good decision on everyone's part.

One group looked at the effect of sleep loss on productivity at four American companies and found employees who weren't sleeping well or enough to be roughly twice as likely to report difficulties with time management, decision - making and motivation.

You can make good decisions, but if you slip a bit and something beyond your control can happen — like the guy [on the peak] who stepped out on that cornice, and I'm at the bottom of the bowl, not up there to show him exactly where to step.

«Some of the best decisions our team at Virgin has made involved exiting markets early, when we could see that our product, service or brand was not making a big enough impression on customers,» Branson later wrote.

«I don't think these tools will replace the teacher quite yet,» says Chaudhry, «but they'll provide the teacher with better information on which to make decisions.»

Whether it's starting the process to grant the island statehood (which island residents are now if favor of), or granting the island's government the ability to go through the Chapter 9 bankruptcy process, Congress doesn't seem ready to make policy decisions on Puerto Rico's future based on what is best for Puerto Ricans themselves.

Some of the best decisions I've made involved saying no to a potential partnership or pulling the plug on a product that wasn't working.

Entrepreneurs who understand exactly what's going on in their businesses can make better decisions than those who don't.

Of course, you should not make your decision based on which bullet fits you best.

It is important for the FOMC to continue on this journey because when the public has a better understanding of how monetary policy decisions are made, not only will the public have the information it needs to hold us accountable for our decisions but monetary policy itself will be more effective.»

Lacking other evidence about product quality (which is usually not available for credence goods), later customers make decisions based on the best evidence they have, without realizing it may be flawed.

Even if the decision was your own, it's always better to make sure that your next steps are built on a plan, not adrenalin.

Crew members aren't told the margins on products, so placement decisions are made based not on profits but on what's best for the shopper.

Reckless ambition It's important that investors are level - headed in their decision making, because what looks like a good investment on the surface may not be the case.

What would be best is if founders didn't have to make decisions on any of these small incubators / investors until they'd pitched all of them.

Good leadership puts a priority on making the right (or at least best possible) decisions and accepting that they might not make everyone happy, much less win everyone's approval.

Some of the best decisions our team at Virgin has made involved exiting markets early, when we could see that our product, service or brand was not making a big enough impression on customers, and would not break through and attract volume sales.

thanks, and yes, a pittance of a pension and regular checkups keep us on budget and head off any problems — best decision i ever made (financial or otherwise) was serving our country doing search - and - rescue, oil and chemical spill remediation, etc. (you can guess the branch of service)-- along the way, frugal living, along with dollar - cost averaging, asset allocation, and diversification allowed us to retire early — Vanguard has been very good over the years, despite the Dot Bomb, 2002, and the recession (where we actually came out better with a modest but bargain retirement home purchase)... it's not easy building additional «legs» on a retirement platform, but now that we're here, cash, real estate, investments and insurance products, along with a small pension all help to avoid any real dependence on social security (we won't even need it at full retirement age)-- however, like nearly everybody, we're headed for Medicare in several years, albeit with a nice supplemental and pharmacy benefits — but our main concern is staying fit, active, and healthy!

[16:00] Pain + reflection = progress [16:30] Creating a meritocracy to draw the best out of everybody [18:30] How to raise your probability of being right [18:50] Why we are conditioned to need to be right [19:30] The neuroscience factor [19:50] The habitual and environmental factor [20:20] How to get to the other side [21:20] Great collective decision - making [21:50] The 5 things you need to be successful [21:55] Create audacious goals [22:15] Why you need problems [22:25] Diagnose the problems to determine the root causes [22:50] Determine the design for what you will do about the root causes [23:00] Decide to work with people who are strong where you are weak [23:15] Push through to results [23:20] The loop of success [24:15] Ray's new instinctual approach to failure [24:40] Tony's ritual after every event [25:30] The review that changed Ray's outlook on leadership [27:30] Creating new policies based on fairness and truth [28:00] What people are missing about Ray's culture [29:30] Creating meaningful work and meaningful relationships [30:15] The importance of radical honesty [30:50] Thoughtful disagreement [32:10] Why it was the relationships that changed Ray's life [33:10] Ray's biggest weakness and how he overcame it [34:30] The jungle metaphor [36:00] The dot collector — deciding what to listen to [40:15] The wanting of meritocratic decision - making [41:40] How to see bubbles and busts [42:40] Productivity [43:00] Where we are in the cycle [43:40] What the Fed will do [44:05] We are late in the long - term debt cycle [44:30] Long - term debt is going to be squeezing us [45:00] We have 2 economies [45:30] This year is very similar to 1937 [46:10] The top tenth of the top 1 % of wealth = bottom 90 % combined [46:25] How this creates populism [47:00] The economy for the bottom 60 % isn't growing [48:20] If you look at averages, the country is in a bind [49:10] What are the overarching principles that bind us together?

While the Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) doesn't currently have crypto trade regulations in place, authorities are collecting information in order to make educated decisions on how to best protect the public without stifling innovation.

[01:10] Introduction [02:45] James welcomes Tony to the podcast [03:35] Tony's leap year birthday [04:15] Unshakeable delivers the specific facts you need to know [04:45] What James learned from Unshakeable [05:25] Most people panic when the stock market drops [05:45] Getting rid of your fear of investing [06:15] Last January was the worst opening, but it was a correction [06:45] You are losing money when you sell on corrections [06:55] Bear markets come every 5 years on average [07:10] The greatest opportunity for a millennial [07:40] Waiting for corrections to invest [08:05] Warren Buffet's advice for investors [08:55] If you miss the top 10 trading days a year... [09:25] Three different investor scenarios over a 20 year period [10:40] The best trading days come after the worst [11:45] Investing in the current world [12:05] What Clinton and Bush think of the current situation [12:45] The office is far bigger than the occupant [13:35] Information helps reduce fear [14:25] James's story of the billionaire upset over another's wealth [14:45] What money really is [15:05] The story of Adolphe Merkle [16:05] The story of Chuck Feeney [16:55] The importance of the right mindset [17:15] What fuels Tony [19:15] Find something you care about more than yourself [20:25] Make your mission to surround yourself with the right people [21:25] Suffering made Tony hungry for more [23:25] By feeding his mind, Tony found strength [24:15] Great ideas don't interrupt you, you have to pursue them [25:05] Never - ending hunger is what matters [25:25] Richard Branson is the epitome of hunger and drive [25:40] Hunger is the common denominator [26:30] What you can do starting right now [26:55] Success leaves clues [28:10] What it means to take massive action [28:30] Taking action commits you to following through [29:40] If you do nothing you'll learn nothing [30:20] There must be an emotional purpose behind what you're doing [30:40] How does Tony ignite creativity in his own life [32:00] «How is not as important as «why» [32:40] What and why unleash the psyche [33:25] Breaking the habit of focusing on «how» [35:50] Deep Practice [35:10] Your desired outcome will determine your action [36:00] The difference between «what» and «why» [37:00] Learning how to chunk and group [37:40] Don't mistake movement for achievement [38:30] Tony doesn't negotiate with his mind [39:30] Change your thoughts and change your biochemistry [40:00] The bad habit of being stressed [40:40] Beautiful and suffering states [41:50] The most important decision is to live in a beautiful state no matter what [42:40] Consciously decide to take yourself out of suffering [43:40] Focus on appreciation, joy and love [44:30] Step out of suffering and find the solution [45:00] Dealing with mercury poisoning [45:40] Tony's process for stepping out of suffering [46:10] Stop identifying with thoughts — they aren't yours [47:40] Trade your expectations for appreciation [50:00] The key to life — gratitude [51:40] What is freedom for you?

Carried interest in and of itself is not a bad thing — it incentivizes fund managers to put investors» money to productive use and make sound investment decisions on their behalf (because if the fund doesn't perform well, the manager doesn't receive any carry).

The move in implied odds of a rate cut for the upcoming meeting was... well, I'm not sure, but would be willing to bet it's one of the biggest ever (excluding days on which rate decisions have been made).

Back then, when I asked this top producer how to become successful, he answered (and I'm paraphrasing here to the best of my memory) that I should not waste any more than 10 to 15 minutes making asset allocation decisions once I closed on a large account.

Just deciding one day to take out a mortgage on a rental property because you have the hankering to make a few extra dollars a month probably isn't going to be the best decision.

Now wonder he didn't do well with his hedge fund; if you're going to be making decisions based on short term volatility like that, you are bound to get whipsawed and lose money.

Trading on margin can increase your gains if you make good investing decisions, but it can also increase your losses when you don't.

If your first point of contact with new sales leads is someone who doesn't have a sales background to properly assess sales leads, ask questions, build relationships and make the right decisions, you're going to miss out on a lot of good sales opportunities — and you'll end up passing along too many unqualified leads to your sales team.

 The Harper government's decision last year to write off every penny of the auto aid and thus build it all into last year's deficit calculation (which I questioned at the time as curious and even misleading) has already been proven wrong. Since the money was already «written off» by Ottawa as a loss (on grounds that they had little confidence it would be repaid — contradicting their own assurances at the same time that it was an «investment,» not a bail - out), any repayment will come as a gain that can be recorded in the budget on the revenue side. Jim Flaherty has learned from past Finance Ministers (especially Paul Martin) that it's always politically better to make the budget situation look worse than it is (even when the bottom has fallen out of the balance), thus positioning yourself to triumphantly announce «surprising good news» (due, no doubt, to «careful fiscal management») down the road. The auto package could thus generate as much as $ 10 billion in «surprising good news» for Ottawa in the years to come (depending on the ultimate worth of the public equity share).

We can't be very good Atheists if we're not making our decision based on the best information available, can we?

And if Clara is taking on the skills and persona of the Doctor, he can look at her and say, no, she wasn't good in the classic sense of goodness but she is extraordinary — she survived, she saved as many as she could, she made hard decisions, she weighed the good of the many against the loss of a few.

They make decisions about the direction our country should take based on something that is by their own admission subjective, personal, and not founded on reason, or even good sense.

We need not take a poll to see if more voted the Holocaust morally evil than good before we can make a decision on this.

For as well as theoretical reflection on the moral significance of a decision, there are other ways and means by which a human being can either become clear about the rightness and conformity to God's will of a decision, or at least improve the conditions for its correct formation: the general cultivation of courage, unselfishness, self - denial, the practice of the art of making vital particular decisions which can not be deduced by purely theoretical consideration as this art is taught by the masters of the spiritual life.

Not all religious thought waited until texts could be written to start and not al religions focus on do's and don'ts though they all do try to help us make better decisions if they are worth the long survivals they've had; both in their own religion and those that took their ideas and reformed them for their current timNot all religious thought waited until texts could be written to start and not al religions focus on do's and don'ts though they all do try to help us make better decisions if they are worth the long survivals they've had; both in their own religion and those that took their ideas and reformed them for their current timnot al religions focus on do's and don'ts though they all do try to help us make better decisions if they are worth the long survivals they've had; both in their own religion and those that took their ideas and reformed them for their current times.

If it came to light that decisions of the triage / lifeboat variety were being made in the distribution of our excess food resources, not for the sake of long - range survival and well - being of the greatest number based upon utilitarian calculation, but rather for the rawest, most crass and most selfish political reasons, would this not indeed have a devastating effect on the American moral consciousness?

Some how it's felt that values, morals, virtues are not there in a secular world only faceless solid lifeless laws of men rather than what has been relayed by Holy books that calls for good deeds and reject bad deeds and to build a faithful societies, communities, nations since communications among nations or even among the nations of mixed cultures and beliefs... Laws or God and universe are to be prepared by some thing that is equivalent to UN but built on nations beliefs to achieve the code of understanding among nations but as can see now it is build on groundless bases if not of words of God to faiths... in addition to those non spiritual secular beliefs to make decisions of faith but at the moment the secular world make and take the decisions while the beliefs and faiths has to pay for it when it becomes a war between all faiths or religions outside your world, it would become back into your inside among the mixed culture and beliefs of the nation or nations under one country flag...!

Philosophy does not exist, however, without the readiness of the philosophizing man to make decisions, on the basis of known truth, as to whether a thought is right or wrong, an action good or bad.

We still need to observe the facts of the conditions on the ground and try to make the best decisions for going forward — and we can't have our options frozen (and fixed) by exactly what was written down be people from long ago.

I personally do nt think Jesus would have considered anyone an enemy, and I think your new age friends are precisely on the money, they ARE just like you, cept maybe you have been better educated in the ways of «getting along with others», so sure, you wont like or love an adult acting in a juvenile manner and hurting someone you care about, but you should understand that had you grown up with their situation, with their friends or family, that you'd be making the same hurtful decisions as them.

The reversibility of the evil decision of the first man is only to be explained by the fact that the integrity on the basis of which the first decision was made, was lost by the evil decision (as it would not have been by the good), because, in contrast to angelic integrity, it was an unmerited, preternatural gift.

God relies heavily on these folks and their anxiety about the rest of us making the wrong decisions is well justified considering that, if they can't get God's work done, who will???

Well, I personally don't see how we can make an intelligent decision on the gay marriage issue without consulting a book that contains a story of a talking donkey.

Once a justice has made the moral decision that he can in good conscience swear to uphold the Constitution, his moral judgments on matters before the Court are not in play.

Both King Arthur Flour and Cabot Creamery are employee owned (KAF) and farmer owned (CC); what this means is that decisions to make the best flours and cheeses is all up to the people that work with the products directly on a day to day basis, not random stock holders that never step foot in the farms or bakeries!