A deeper understanding of judgments and choices also requires a richer vocabulary than is available in everyday language. Learning medicine consists in part of learning the language of medicine. To be a good diagnostician, a physician needs to acquire a large set of labels for diseases, each of which binds an idea of the illness and its symptoms, possible antecedents and causes, possible developments and consequences, and possible interventions to cure or mitigate the illness. The expectation of intelligent gossip is a powerful motive for serious self-criticism, more powerful than New Year resolutions to improve one’s decision making at work and at home. Many of us spontaneously anticipate how friends and colleagues will evaluate our choices the quality and content of these anticipated judgments therefore matters. Questioning what we believe and want is difficult at the best of times, and especially difficult when we most need to do it, but we can benefit from the informed opinions of others. Why be concerned with gossip? Because it is much easier, as well as far more enjoyable, to identify and label the mistakes of others than to recognize our own. I hope to enrich the vocabulary that people use when they talk about the judgments and choices of others, the company’s new policies, or a colleague’s investment decisions.
Mine is the proverbial office watercooler, where opinions are shared and gossip is exchanged. Introduction Every author, I suppose, has in mind a setting in which readers of his or her work could benefit from having read it. Thinking About Life ConclusionsĪppendix B: Choices, Values, and Frames Acknowledgments Notes Index Expert Intuition: When Can We Trust It? 23.
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