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"Sometimes a person only has to sing a few bars for you to hear how well they can sing. Reasoning is the same - it often doesn't take a lot of time to figure out if someone can do it."

Have I learned enough yet that it's time for deciding? After a while, you will just naturally and open-mindedly gather all the relevant info. But in doing so, you will have avoided the first pitfall of bad decision-making, which is to subconsciously make the decision first and then cherry-pick the data that supports it.

But how does one learn well?"

"Naturally, people can't appreciate what they can't see. A person who can't identify patterns and synthesize doesn't know what it's like to see patterns and synthesize any more than a colour-blind person knows what it's like to see colour."