We are what we repeatedly do.
In this Edition …
January is about resetting bad habits that we have allowed to drift, and imagining our better selves. It’s the month when we decide to commit to control of the decisions that we make. In this quarter, we look at the illusion of control and the opportunity in allowing ourselves to be surprised by the world around us. In the new year and the new beginning, it’s time to embrace the choices we can make while leaving space for the potential for the world to surprise us.
‘The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.’
Samuel Johnson
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Can we solve for a better life?
Sometimes we want to discover something that is unknown to us. We have the pieces of the puzzle in front of us and we’re a few steps away from calculating the answers we need. In mathematics, we call this solving for something. Can we solve for happiness?
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Regression
Regression is a go-to method in data analytics because it offers the tantalising promise of being able to predict the future. Identifying cause and effect is hard wired into our approach to problem solving. If we can identify a cause of a problem, we have a chance of intervening and altering the path of the future.
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Avoiding mono-causal explanations
There is an old Korean story about a farmer and his son that can teach us a lot about trying to analyse the present and the future …