Only Human

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Successful people make predictable mistakes. Only Human examines the cognitive biases that quietly distort consequential decisions and offers a framework for catching them before they cost something. Paul J. Carroll, CFP®, draws on behavioral research and decades of advising people who are very good at what they do to show why intelligence alone is no protection, and what structure can do that instinct cannot.

You’ll Learn:

  • Why intelligence offers no protection. The biases that distort high-stakes judgment operate below awareness, and knowing about them is not the same as being immune to them.
  • How success itself becomes a blind spot. A long record of good outcomes builds confidence faster than it builds accuracy, and the two are easy to mistake for each other.
  • How to tell a good decision from a good outcome. Judging yourself on results teaches the wrong lessons with the most conviction, because luck and judgment leave the same evidence behind.
  • A six-part method for deciding deliberately. Practical disciplines that interrupt bias at the moment it operates, rather than after the consequences have arrived.
Navy blue hardcover book Only Human: The Hidden Discipline of Sophisticated Leadership by Paul J. Carroll, CFP

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