A framework for understanding decisions across four levels: personal choices like career and food, team decisions in families and businesses, societal decisions like elections and protests, and nation-state decisions. Everyone operates at all four levels simultaneously.
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When it comes to decision-making, all of us are making decisions on multiple levels. The first level of which is the decisions we make for ourselves, which is level 1. So these are all kinds of personal decisions— our education, our career, our lifestyle, our food choices. All of these are deeply personal choices. On level 2, we start making decisions as teams. So this is where family comes into play, this is where business comes into play, this is where sports comes into play. So you have a cricket selection team, we which is deciding the 11 players who will represent India. They will make certain set of choices as a team on the field, so on and so forth. On 3rd level, we start making decisions as a society. So all kinds of protests, all kinds of rioting, all kinds of lobbying, all sorts of elections— all of these are decisions we are making as a society. For example, yesterday there was— day before yesterday, there was a big protest that spurred up in Nepal, right, where there was a section of society which came to the roads. They violently expressed their anger, burned down a few buildings, Right, that was a decision as a society. On level 4, we make decisions as nation-states.