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Business is difficult because it involves people, who make decisions based on feelings, which vary wildly and depend upon many many factors, including the weath
by alexashka 7y ago
Business is difficult because it involves people, who make decisions based on feelings, which vary wildly and depend upon many many factors, including the weather.
Every other field involving manipulation of people is difficult, because people.
If you want answers, fund and study the brain.
- rjyoungling 7y agoI agree with this so much! In some weird sense, I feel like mathematics is way easier. I often half-jokingly say that but there's an element of truth in it. All your definitions are painfully clear. (How often do you see people disagreeing, only to, later on, find out they actually mostly agree but were operating under different definitions.) You control every single variable. If I want to create a 'lab' to constrain a variable, you just write down 'Let n be an element of Z' or something like that. Tada, now you're only working in Z. Try controlling variables in business haha. I'm glad to see behavioral economics and psychology are slowly starting to take off more in business. Thanks for reading btw.