Tempo: Timing, Tactics and Strategy in Narrative-Driven Decision-Making
Categories: Business & Money, Self-Help
Venkatesh Rao, founder of the blog Ribbonfarm, offers a theory of decision making that focuses on timing, rhythm and narrative. He argues that decisions are shaped by the stories we tell and the tempo of events around us, and explains concepts such as mental models, archetypes and calculated risks. Rao draws on military strategy, cognitive science and literature to show how to act at the right moment.
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- Shane Parrish: “A lot of books talk about the what and how in decision-making. This book also talks about the when, where, and who, with when being the driving question the book seeks to explore. Tempo has three elements: rhythm, emotion, and energy. Usually we adapt to the tempo of our environment.”