Chesterton's Fence: Use This to Make Fewer Bad Decisions

A core component of making great decisions is understanding the rationale behind previous decisions. If we don’t understand how we got “here,” we run the risk of making things much worse.

In this video, you'll learn the intricacies of an idea called Chesterton's Fence and see the dangers of what happens when you ignore it...

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If it is easy to determine the reason, that's a no brainer. In the real world thought, it might be to difficult or costly to determine the initial reason. So in many scenarios, trial and error is better than being 100% before you make any decision.

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4:30 Peacoqs: Very often, fowl with extremely colourful males (sex-dimorphism) are polygamous and don't take part in raising the chicklets. However, the "inefficiency" of their plumage and colouration also serves an important function besides signalling to the female their health (which it doesn't that well - a peacoq with a beautiful plumage can build a beautiful plumage, but other characteristics like resistance to illnesses, problem-solving, ... may be independent of their plumage): It draws enemies to the male and away from breeding females.

This BTW is also a key factor to signal to females. A peacoq without enough endurance or quickness will be eaten.

Now I wonder if YouTube's "language filters" will let this comment stay.