Americans believe that people can become better decision-makers through education, practice, and experience. They invest heavily in developing decision capacity—in schools, professional training, workplace programs, and throughout life.
This creates both opportunity and obligation. The opportunity is that you can improve your decisions through deliberate development. The obligation is that poor decisions are seen partly as failures to develop yourself adequately.
When Americans encounter poor decision-making, their first instinct is often to address it through training and development rather than simple removal. They believe most people can learn to decide better. But this also means that those who persistently make poor decisions despite development opportunities are held more accountable—if the skill can be learned, failure to learn it reflects on you.
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