Having a good outcome is.not the same of making a good decision. A good decision is one informes by true facts. Even if the outcome is not favorable, if it was well informed it was good decision. Similar y a poorly informes decision that has a good outcome was.a Bad decision.
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Take it easy man
what?
If a decision was well informed, it should lead to a good outcome. If it does not, then the information was flawed or there were unconsidered factors.
You are right that sometimes you can get a good outcome from an uneducated decision by luck, but a “good decision” is defined by it’s ability to produce a good outcome predictably, or without luck.
Yeah I agree with this. And it’s unpopular with ourselves because we impulsively assess our decisions by the results but they are two separate things.
It’s worth considering because if you are aware and you made good decisions, the bad outcome is less painful, and you can continue to be objective in your decision making.
The world isn’t so black & white like that. If peoples mindsets adhered to such rigidity, then… 🤷♂️ the discovery of the new world would be regarded to TODAY as an abstract failure by all measures.
Did you know penicillin, and velcro, and super glue, coca cola, and microwave ovens, and even air conditioning was discovered by accident?
Did you know there was a time in the 19th century when kerosene was king. It powered everything from personal lanterns, to residential stoves, to industrial steam engines. But during its manufacture, there are waste byproducts carbon chains c5 thru c13. There were no EPA like agencies back then, so those were simply disposed of by dumping into nearby rivers, thus polluting the drinking water of big cities making everybody sick.
Until a environmentalist chemist tasked with cleaning up the local waterways, and develop better disposal methods, when he spotted an opportunity. He refracted those into a new solution, the lighter stuff on top became gasoline, and heavier stuff which settled towards the bottom became diesel.
Not soon after, his pal Nichlaus Otto invented the gasoline engine. His other pal Rudolf Diesel invented the Diesel engine. These three guys, together essentially turned trash into treasure… a booming industry that forever changed the world.
Thru YOUR rigid perception, his two tasks he was hired for… did he succeed?
Clean up the river waters? Yes, he succeeded.
Develop new methods to dispose of industrial waste byproduct of kerosene production? No he failed, because he simply found a way to repurpose it.
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