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The law of proximity says people play many games at once, but the nearest visible game has the strongest effect on decision-making.
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Decision Making
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Jiang argues that the British system removes intuition and imagination from decision-making because they are too mysterious.
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Mercouris says corruption eventually takes over decision-making in declining powers and cites late-fifth-century Athens, Republican Rome, and late-nineteenth-century Britain as examples.
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"...one that is most close to you, and that impacts your decision -making the most, okay? So that's the law of proximity. So let..."
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"So let's examine this. The first game you play, of course, is the family game, right? So you might have parents. And you have..."
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"Yeah, I know. Then you go to work, where you're competing in order to win the favor of your boss and to be popular..."
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"...corruption gets completely out of control there and starts to influence decision making and it also happens in Republican Rome and by the way..."
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"...system, basically, it's trying to remove intuition and imagination from the decision -making process, from the intellectual process, because intuition and imagination are too..."
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"...a conscious and a subconscious, right? Subconscious. The conscious is this decision -making, whereas subconscious determines our action, okay? So, what neuroscientists say is,..."
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"...is that Israel will be able to have greater influence over decision -making. Okay. Number five. Section 224 will give Israel. Access to U.S...."
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"...one, maintaining open trade. Okay? Maintaining sovereignty of different nations. Maintaining decision -making through consensus. Okay?"
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"...that is i think guiding some of uh president trump's uh decision making over a potential blockade and so on because iran has become..."
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"...And this is very problematic because it will lead to bad decision making. And this is what we saw in Ukraine, where... I mean,..."
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"...of course, will lead to hubris. It will lead to bad decision making. No one will point this out because they're too afraid of..."
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"...of leadership. There's a lack of strategy. There's a lack of decision making. And this is true for the entire global Western elite. You..."
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