listen to the strongest case against your idea, imagine alternative scenarios that are not your preconceived notions, take in outside information, take in information that may contradict what you re looking at. run out what this will look like going guaforward. it seems to me that we in the united states, when we make political decisions as citizens, we do everything wrong. we listen only to one side of the story, we reinforce our biases, we never look at the alternative. is it fair to say that americans civic decision making is politically broken? this book does feel like a book that s useful to read right now at this particular moment in time. i think we don t have enough deliberative decision making in terms of the electorate and in terms of some of our leaders right now. but a key point, actually, that is a theme that runs throughout all of farsighted is point of diversity in making decisions.