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Why is it so hard to be rational?

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      To some extent, knowing a person well means being to predict what they would want. In the speaker example, he failed to predict which speaker system he would later prefer, after listening to both...

      To some extent, knowing a person well means being to predict what they would want.

      In the speaker example, he failed to predict which speaker system he would later prefer, after listening to both speakers. Either he didn’t know himself very well or he didn’t know the speakers very well.

      Sometimes you don’t know what you’ll want until you try it, and sometimes that’s okay. But we often do try to make accurate predictions of which product we will prefer, to buy the right one the first time. The speakers aren’t important, but there are other important decisions that we try hard to get right.

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