Title: Farsighted Pdf How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most
Author: Steven Johnson
Published Date: 2018
Page: 256
Praise for Farsighted: “Riveting... As a deep thinker and gifted storyteller, Johnson is the right author to tackle the topic. He’s at his best when analyzing impossibly complex decisions... One of Johnson’s thought-provoking points is that [people who excel at long-term thinking] read novels, which are ideal exercises in mental time travel and empathy. I think he’s right.”—The New York Times Book Review “Johnson is explicitly focused on real-life decisions that (ideally) involve serious deliberation... [He]reminds us that, fundamentally, choices concern competing narratives, and we’re likely to make better choices if we have richer stories, with more fleshed-out characters, a more nuanced understanding of motives, and a deeper appreciation of how decisions are likely to reverberate and resound.” —The Wall Street Journal “Johnson is well-placed to dig into these dilemmas of decision-making, as he gracefully serves up examples ranging from 17th-century urban planning to contemporary artificial intelligence.” —Financial Times “[An] excellent book... altogether insightful.” —Brain Pickings “An anecdote-packed, insight-laden exploration of what works, and what doesn’t, when it comes to our most complex decisions, Johnson’s latest book makes a convincing case for adding more storytelling to the C-suite and beyond.” —San Francisco Chronicle “Johnson is a succinct, colorful, and skillful writer, and this book is one of those rare works that is highly relevant to the daily functioning of just about everybody.” —Publishers Weekly Praise for Steven Johnson: “Mr. Johnson’s erudition can be quite gobsmacking.” —The Wall Street Journal “A great science writer.” —Bill Clinton, speaking at the 2013 Clinton Foundation Health Matters conference “A first-rate storyteller.” —The New York Times “A maven of the history of ideas.” —The Guardian “Steven Johnson’s mind works in wondrous ways.” —Seattle Post-Intelligencer “[An] excellent book… altogether insightful.” Steven Johnson is the bestselling author of eleven books, including Where Good Ideas Come From, Wonderland, and The Ghost Map. He's the host and co-creator of the Emmy-winning PBS/BBC series How We Got To Now, and the host of the podcast American Innovations. He lives in Brooklyn and Marin County, California with his wife and three sons.
Big, life-altering decisions matter so much more than the decisions we make every day, and they're also the most difficult: where to live, whom to marry, what to believe, whether to start a company, how to end a war. There's no one-size-fits-all approach for addressing these kinds of conundrums.
Steven Johnson's classic Where Good Ideas Come From inspired creative people all over the world with new ways of thinking about innovation. In Farsighted, he uncovers powerful tools for honing the important skill of complex decision-making. While you can't model a once-in-a-lifetime choice, you can model the deliberative tactics of expert decision-makers. These experts aren't just the master strategists running major companies or negotiating high-level diplomacy. They're the novelists who draw out the complexity of their characters' inner lives, the city officials who secure long-term water supplies, and the scientists who reckon with future challenges most of us haven't even imagined. The smartest decision-makers don't go with their guts. Their success relies on having a future-oriented approach and the ability to consider all their options in a creative, productive way.
Through compelling stories that reveal surprising insights, Johnson explains how we can most effectively approach the choices that can chart the course of a life, an organization, or a civilization. Farsighted will help you imagine your possible futures and appreciate the subtle intelligence of the choices that shaped our broader social history.
Well-written and entertaining While one reviewer is right and the book is not a textbook on decicion theory, that isn't what it's meant to be. The book is more a rumination on how we make decisions and why, along with helpful tips you can use in your own life. The stories Johnson shares are personal and relatable, and every suggestion he makes comes along with a story to support it. If you're looking for a textbook on decicion theory, this isn't it, but it's definitely worth a read.Covers old ground in a vastly better, more colorful, personalized way. Surprisingly good. Covers the same ground as many other decisions books, but in a deeper fashion, with more meaty examples. As you read, you come across advice that you say to yourself “I have to remember that”. And that, and that. Very instructive. It’s filled with examples of situations where thinking about the consequences of decisions would have made for vastly better outcomes. Insightful. The story about the detailed scenarios planning that went behind the BinLaden raid, that led to its success, is amazing.Useless If you expect this book to help with decision-making, you will be very disappointed.The premise of the book is that you need to carefully consider all factors before making an important decision. OK, fair enough. The author uses the history of Collect Pond in New York City as an example. He then states that had decision makers used modern decision-making techniques, then the decision to fill in Collect Pond would have turned out differently. Yes, well, but back then they didn't have the benefit of modern decision-making techniques.The objective discussion of decision-making ends about three-quarters of the way the way through the book. At this point the author going on a bender about climate control, carbon footprints, and artificial intelligence. I lost interest.Although dated and a bit boring, the best book I've read on decision-making is called "Decision Traps", by J. Edward Russo and Paul J. H. Shoemaker. At least this book provides useful tools. "Farsighted" does not.
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