Part decision theory, part psychology, part philosophy.  It is somewhere between 12 Rules, Real Options and Meditations.   It exposes to you all of the garbled nonsense that you interpret as your own decisions and gives guardrails to protect you, sometimes from yourself, sometimes from the expectations of those around you.  

He points out there is a lot of post rationalisation to make you feel like you made a rationale decision, when your emotions are in control.  

I have spent time reading neuroscience, but I have never seen it juxtaposed against decision theory.  Maximize minimum gain, minimize maximum loss.  All basic stuff in its own field but interesting placed in psychological, sociological and philosophical contexts.

Some of my training in both my undergraduate and professional life was in analytics and decision science.  In those fields, there is a right answer and time to access it.  In the world of management decision making we had the manage from the gut of Jack Welch.  This is a cautionary tale and a framework for imposing discipline on your decision making so that you can get it out from an internal process to be something that you can look at.  The eyes that you will look at it with, are  in some ways, the average of who you surround yourself with,  in your friendships, your profession and your reading. 

Mr Aurelius features often.