We all make the best decisions we can based on what we know or ...
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This book is a riveting, scary, horrifying, thought provoking, and sometimes hilarious narrative of  human foibles and American innocence. If only 10% of this book is true, we are in BIG trouble. As the disenchanted, "everyman" mentality struggles to defend their choice, let us be compassionate. We all make the best decisions we can based on what we know or THINK we know. The alternative was also scary.
  Let us become knowledgable. This book may be the first step for many to tiptoe into the world of politics. It certainly highlights my own naivete', and I plan to educate myself, because I too want to make America great again. Not Trump's version of greed, sexual objectifying, white man power, and narcissm. Rather, revisiting the idealism that made us great in the first place.
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I had read this wonderful book and ordered a copy for my brother-in-law.
The book is about how people make decisions.  It's probably the best book on this subject written.
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A wealth of information. I do like making informed decisions. Now if I would just do it more often.
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A very interesting account as to how and why a diverse, uncoordinated independent group of people come up with the most correct decision, better than most "expert" individual answers.  "As long as the group is diverse and independent enough, the errors people make effectively cancel themselves out, leaving you with the knowledge that the group has."  Intuitively, it doesn't seem like this would be true, but Surowiecki does a good job of proving and explaining this phenomenon, made even more relevant in this "instant communication" Internet age.  A good read.
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I started reading the sample 1st chapter on if. Book on if by Mark Batterson will inspire you to look at
Your life "if" . Interesting as we make  decisions based on knowing God or not. A challenge we do our best and we ask God to make the final decision  On what is best  accordingly to his will.
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We all have to make tough decisions in our lives.  Sometimes we choose right, but then again sometimes we choose wrong.  Would you choose to do something that could alter a persons life just to satisfy yourself?
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A clever allegory about how most of us go through life ignoring our own responsibility for the decisions we've made to get to where were are. How we blame everything and everyone else for our situation and how, once we take ownership of our own destiny, life can change course and put us in a better place. This book will reverberate with almost every person who reads it and each of us knows someone who would benefit from it's insight.

There are a number of typos and obvious words missing throughout the text but don't let that stop you from finishing the book. You will be a better person for it.
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I enjoyed reading this book. I think Silver did a good job at illustrating his main points through storytelling. I recommend this book to anyone (which is most of us) that is challenged to make decisions in an uncertain world where others expect certainty. I think this book will arm you with tools to more accurately express your predictions.
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We all have choices. We can grow up to be kind or Cruel. Each of us can change the world one person at a time. The YA book about a little boy with a horribly deformed face did just that. The whole world can seem to be against you and maybe it is. But in the end the choice of how you handle it will make all the difference. This is a remarkable story told brilliantly through the eyes of several children and of their parental environment.  Parental environment makes a difference in all our lives.
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Take responsibility of your origins and our future. This wide ranging information must be acknowledged and managed for everyone's future. Learn that now is the time to do.
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Derrick has written a terrific book on the wonderful choices in life. His research relates life choices through the wisdom of the ages and shows in detail how to achieve one's personal goals. Life should not just happen.  We always have choices and we need to recognize their arrival.
BJ  Haliburton, Ontario
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We never know where our paths will take us or how far the decisions we make will affect not just us but those around us.

In THE SURVIVOR'S GUIDE TO FAMILY HAPPINESS author Maddie Dawson introduces us to individuals who are so much a part of us that we will have to stop and wonder how we could all be so complicated. We meet these individuals who are not just searching for family and answers---they are also searching for a part of themselves, and wonder by putting the missing pieces together if it will give them the closure they want. For Nina is seems to be about knowing where she came from. For Phoebe it is about dealing with the decisions of the past and realizing the difference between something being "the best" or "for the best". And for an individual like lindy it is about trying to move forward when there are shadows of the past lingering around her.

This book let's us see the importance of knowing who we are as well as accepting the importance of moving forward and not being forever judged or held to the past. Entertaining and a real adventure for the reader, Maddie Dawson delivers a book that reminds us of the importance of appreciating each and every day.
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Each of us needs to be aware of what we've let happen in our world.  All it takes is one person to make difference for another person.
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The most important thing I read in this book was, "If you don't know what you want, or you don't care what happens, there's no decision making needed. Flip a coin..." (Chapter 4) I realize that many times I haven't made decisions, but formed vague notions about what I could live with. Now I know that I don't have to settle for whatever I happen to stumble upon. Instead, I can be proactive in building my reality. DECIDE! 6 Steps to Great Decisions will help me change that. Using these 6 steps I can determine what I desire in life and begin to work towards those things.
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This book is something we could all benefit from reading for so many reasons, but first and foremost understanding how our personal choices impact the world at large.
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I encourage, if anyone want to know thy self, really want to know thy self, where you are now, and where you want to go by changing the decision you make in life, I stronglly encourage you to buy this book. I don't want to let the cat out of the bag. See for your self.

PROVERBS: KING SOLOMOM: Knowledge is good, but wisdom is even better. Knowledge can help you pass tests and accomplish tasks, but wisdom will guide you through the most important decisions in life.
Please buy the book and read it and come to your own conclusion.
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Most people have always grown up with the belief that good decisions require planning, and lots of time to take in details. Malcolm Gladwell, writer for New Yorker and best-selling author of The Tipping Point, Outliers, and What the Dog Saw: and Other Adventures suggests we do not give our own intuitions enough credit.
Blink shows us the many times where split-second decisions have ended in positive results. Gladwell shows us scenario after scenario of times when our intuition gave us the ability to make accurate decisions.
In one example, Gladwell talks about a musician named Kenna. Immediately upon hearing ten seconds of Kenna's music, Craig Kallman, co-president of Atlantic Records, decided the Kenna's music may have a home with his company. In the end, Kallman didn't rely on his sixth sense and decided research Kenna's selling ability. Though Kenna already had a small fan base, according to the research apparently the selected audience seemed very unexcited to hear anymore of Kenna's music and Kallman never signed him.
Through the example, Gladwell poses the question that perhaps if the Kallman had listened to his instincts instead of doing a load of research Kenna may have proved to be a pretty successful artist.
The book consists mostly of more examples among these lines, constantly showing how some of the best decisions have been without having to give them much thought. The idea is very interesting, and the first few chapters and examples are very thought provoking. However, the book quickly digresses into heap of repetitive examples. The book leaves us convinced but confused, without any explanations of how or why our brains make good quick decisions. After awhile the book became difficult to read.
The book seemed very good overall. It has very exciting ideas. However, I believe that it could use some more insight and fewer examples. This book entertains the audience and will leave the reader wanting to know more.