Solomon's Paradox

From Weekly I/O#51


Solomon's Paradox: When helping ourselves make decisions, imagine helping a friend.

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We are better at solving others' problems than ours because detachment yields objectivity. Therefore, when helping ourselves to make a decision, we can imagine we are helping a friend.

This well-known old concept strikes me again because the tech companies here in the bay have been having massive layoffs recently. I could give suggestions to my friends who are expecting layoffs in their companies. Nevertheless, I failed to acknowledge and apply the same suggestion myself when my company was also expecting to let go of people.


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