You can afford anything but not everything.

Every choice that you make is a trade-off against something else and that doesn't just

apply to your money.

That applies to any limited resource that you need to manage, including your time, your

energy, your attention, your focus, anything that you have to manage.

There's a scarce resource and you need to decide where you're going to direct it because

putting too much time, energy, attention into one thing means that that's got to come

from somewhere that's going to come at the expense of something else.

So what matters most to you and how do you make decisions that reflect that?

Answering these two questions is a lifetime practice and that is what this podcast is here

to explore.

My name is Paula Pant.

I'm the host of the Affordable Care Foundation.

I'm the host of the Affordable Care Foundation and today, Dr. Glebssepursky joins us to

discuss how to make better decisions, how to avoid disasters, the importance of probabilistic

thinking, and the case for not going with your gut.

Dr. Sepursky was a professor at Ohio State University and prior to that, a fellow at the

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.

His expertise is the psychology of decision-making.

He is a behavioral economist and a cognitive neuroscientist and he has spent decades

studying the dangerous judgment errors known as cognitive biases that destroy bottom

lines that bring down careers and that result in people and institutions underperforming

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