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{"id":1498,"date":"2013-07-16T14:28:40","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T14:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/?p=1498"},"modified":"2013-07-27T14:44:29","modified_gmt":"2013-07-27T14:44:29","slug":"200-is-leadership-probabilistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/?p=1498","title":{"rendered":"#200 Is leadership probabilistic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img src=\"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/send-to-kindle\/media\/white-25.png\" \/><span>Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div><p>A quick gander at the <a title=\"Heisenberg uncertainty principle\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heisenberg_uncertainty_principle\" target=\"_blank\">Heisenberg uncertainty principle<\/a> may convince you that events and people around us are inherently unpredictable. Your reaction may be, &#8220;What is the point of my efforts?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, we humans are irrational. Use that irrationality to your advantage, and your reaction will be, &#8220;I must try anyway.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thus you will use the Heisenberg uncertainty principle as a mere data point, and not as a fatalistic decision taken for us by nature. Perhaps a lack of understanding and inability to change perspective is the reason for all cynicism we see around us.<\/p>\n<p>Upon further reflection, you will realize that human irrationality is merely a variation of the Heisenberg principle. Thus the advice to try anyway has a solid basis in science, and by definition is not irrational at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quick gander at the Heisenberg uncertainty principle may convince you that events and people around us are inherently unpredictable. Your reaction may be, &#8220;What is the point of my efforts?&#8221; Luckily, we humans are irrational. Use that irrationality to your advantage, and your reaction will be, &#8220;I must try anyway.&#8221; Thus you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1499,"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions\/1499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}