My secret wish for you, in listening to ChooseFI, has always been that beyond reaching Financial Independence, you’d also improve your life in many ways, not least of which is the ability to think more clearly. I’m on the same journey myself. Right now, I’m re-reading Annie Duke’s Thinking in Bets —a book I consider essential for upgrading your life and decision-making. It reminded me of two newsletter segments I wrote years ago, which I’m sharing here as Parts 1 and 2: “Decisions are made with imperfect information and by definition are made without the benefit of hindsight. You know what you know at the time, and you try to make the best decision possible. But you can’t know everything, and information is constantly being updated when we learn new things! Annie Duke’s concept of “resulting” is the best way to look at this: It’s so easy to look at the result, after the fact, and try to determine if it was a good or bad decision merely from the nature of the outcome (good or bad).…