Things I've learned recently - The Black Swan

The Black Swan is teaching me a few things.  One of those things is that when you look back on how you might have made decisions previously, you'll use your current frame of mind to understand those decisions.  Therefore, writing down your decision process and what you were thinking at the time can be very valuable to see where you've come from and to understand how you're different now than you were before.  In that way, you can help yourself make better decisions because you can understand decisions you made previously that you would not make in the same way now.  It wasn't because you were stupider back then, but because you were working under a different set of rules at the time.  I plan on using this information to understand my decision process as I think about going back to get my MBA.