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Most of us think good decisions happen in the moment. Shane Parrish says they’re already decided before you sit down. And most of them end up being bad, because you waited too long to make them good.Shane Parrish spent years inside Canadian intelligence, making real-time decisions where the stakes were other people's lives, long before he founded Farnam Street and The Knowledge Project podcast. He's the author of Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results, and has quietly become the person elite investors, athletes, and Silicon Valley leaders turn to when a single decision carries outsized weight.In this conversation, you'll explore:Why the position you're in before a decision matters more than the decision itself, and how Warren Buffett almost never finds himself in a bad oneThe four hidden "defaults" that hijack your thinking before you noticeThe three-word phrase Shane uses with his own kids to defuse an argument before it escalatesWhy "doing your best" almost never happens in the