Taking the decision-making process away from people disempowers them. It also makes them much less likely to buy into the decision, however right it may be. One’s own conscience remains the ultimate arbiter.

Lama Surya Das
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According to Nobel Prize-winning economist James Buchanan, almost everyone has the ability to make the “right” decision. But they won’t do so if they think their opinion is irrelevant. So they look to experts who are infallible. And that turns out to be a terrible mistake.

Experts are often wrong. And independent thinking is the only way that you’ll learn what’s truly right for you.

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