{"id":84741,"date":"2022-11-16T09:25:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=84741"},"modified":"2022-11-29T16:37:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T20:37:39","slug":"wrong-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wrong-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We Make Wrong Decisions (+ How to Make Better Ones)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Why do we <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/why-we-make-bad-decisions\/\">make bad decisions<\/a>? How can you increase your chances of making the right choice? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When making decisions, we are often tempted to prioritize short-term results over long-term benefits. More often than not, this leads to bad decisions in the long run because those short-term benefits come at the cost of future benefits. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s how the failure to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-to-think-long-term\/\">think long-term<\/a> results in wrong decisions you&#8217;ll regret down the road. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-failure-to-think-long-term\"><strong>Failure to Think Long-Term<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Some decisions yield benefits in the short term while leading to long-term disaster. To illustrate, consider the mental model based on the <em>boiling frog<\/em>, which stays in a pot of water as the temperature gradually increases, eventually finding itself boiled alive. Although the increase in temperature feels nice in the short term, it creates a long-term catastrophe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weinberg and McCann argue that we\u2019re susceptible to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/making-bad-decisions\/\">making wrong decisions<\/a> because of <em>short-termism<\/em>. In finance, this refers to emphasizing short-term results to the detriment of long-term results. For instance, a company that only focuses on marketing current products might fail to develop new products necessary for future success. Weinberg and McCann suggest that <strong>short-termism afflicts our general <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/methods-of-decision-making-crucial-conversations\/\">decision-making<\/a> as well.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note:<a href=\"https:\/\/fosburit.com\/culture\/long-term-orientation-vs-short-term-orientation\/\"> Certain cultures are more oriented around short-term progress than others<\/a>, indicating a cultural basis for short-termism. The United States, for example, is especially susceptible to short-termism. East Asian countries, by contrast, are typically inclined toward long-term thinking.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To combat short-termism, <strong>heed the <\/strong><strong><em>precautionary principle<\/em><\/strong><strong> and act with extreme caution when an action\u2019s potentially harmful consequences are unknown<\/strong>. More concretely, this involves analyzing potential risk by considering the harmful consequences that an action could lead to. Ask yourself, \u201cIs there reason to think that this action has dangerous consequences?\u201d If the answer is \u201cyes,\u201d pause before acting. By adhering to this principle, Weinberg and McCann suggest we\u2019re less likely to run into harmful consequences down the road.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Pushback Against the Precautionary Principle<\/strong><br><br>Although the precautionary principle seems intuitive, legal scholars have argued that <a href=\"https:\/\/dash.harvard.edu\/handle\/1\/29998410\">it has untenable consequences<\/a>. In particular, when <em>all <\/em>possible decisions have potentially harmful consequences, the precautionary principle ends in stalemate. For instance, critics of nuclear power object to its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenamerica.org\/fight-dirty-energy\/amazon-build-cleaner-cloud\/10-reasons-oppose-nuclear-energy\">potentially catastrophic consequences<\/a>, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hsph.harvard.edu\/c-change\/subtopics\/fossil-fuels-health\/#:~:text=Producing%20and%20burning%20fossil%20fuels,coal%2C%20oil%20and%20natural%20gas.\">the alternative\u2014fossil fuels\u2014might lead to devastating climate change.<\/a> The precautionary principle offers little help in such situations.<br><br>More generally, these situations illustrate conflict between the precautionary principle and <em>expected-utility theory<\/em>, the view that <a href=\"https:\/\/people.hec.edu\/mongin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2018\/08\/O12.MonginExpectedHbk97.pdf\">the rational decision in a given context maximizes utility<\/a>\u2014in short, it yields the highest net benefit, on average. Because high-risk decisions sometimes have sufficiently high rewards, expected-utility theory might recommend making such decisions where the precautionary principle counsels caution. For example, the possibly vast rewards of transitioning to nuclear energy could justify our doing so, in spite of the risks.&nbsp;<br><br>To reconcile these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/principles-of-decision-making\/\">decision-making principles<\/a>, some have argued that the precautionary principle is simply a <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/lpr\/article\/5\/1\/19\/990788\">helpful heuristic to use in practice, not a foolproof law of decision theory<\/a>. In other words, the precautionary principle is a useful guideline, despite being theoretically questionable.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do we make bad decisions? How can you increase your chances of making the right choice? 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