The hardest choices are also the most consequential. So why do we know so little about how to
get them right? Big life-altering decisions matter so much more than the decisions we make
every day and they're also the most difficult: where to live whom to marry what to believe
whether to start a company how to end a war. There's no one-size-fits-all approach for
addressing these kinds of conundrums. Steven Johnson's classic Where Good Ideas Come From
inspired creative people all over the world with new ways of thinking about innovation. In
Farsighted he uncovers powerful tools for honing the important skill of complex
decision-making. While you can't model a once-in-a-lifetime choice you can model the
deliberative tactics of expert decision-makers. These experts aren't just the master
strategists running major companies or negotiating high-level diplomacy. They're the novelists
who draw out the complexity of their characters' inner lives the city officials who secure
long-term water supplies and the scientists who reckon with future challenges most of us
haven't even imagined. The smartest decision-makers don't go with their guts. Their success
relies on having a future-oriented approach and the ability to consider all their options in a
creative productive way. Through compelling stories that reveal surprising insights Johnson
explains how we can most effectively approach the choices that can chart the course of a life
an organization or a civilization. Farsighted will help you imagine your possible futures and
appreciate the subtle intelligence of the choices that shaped our broader social history.
