Below are some Excerpts from The Executioner's Manual
"Is that Finally Your Answer?
When I was in Business School, we were required to take coursework in Decision Sciences. These classes consisted of building decision-making models, while applying sophisticated probability theory in order to make tractable, very complex management problems. I have used the sophisticate methods I learned exactly zero times in the intervening twenty years, at least not formally.
To this day, I contend that if they really wanted us to learn how to make decisions, they should have locked us in a room and refused to feed us until we made one. Each decision, one food pellet. You see, my business school was concerned with us making "good" decisions, when a useful first step should have been to get us comfortable making any decisiongood or bad.
Experienced people have counseled me that some people have the DNA to make tough calls and others do not. Ex post I suppose one can make a tautological case that this is correct. However, I have also learned that people can learn to get comfortable making the call over time.
