Meta | How to make decisions

How to make decisions

Decisions are all around us, all the time — and getting better at them has more leverage on your life than each topic we share here in isolation. This is an 80/20 on decision making from Chip and Dan Heath's Decisive: why we're bad at decisions, and the four-step process they propose to fix it. Take a decision you're working through right now and apply the questions to it as you go.

Chapters

0:00 Intro0:17 A meta topic1:47 Why we're bad at decisions3:44 Generate options8:11 Test assumptions12:41 Distance yourself14:43 Minimize risk17:42 The four steps, recapped18:07 Three things to start18:49 Wrap-up

Three things to start on making better decisions

Block time in your calendar

Report back in the comments

Set a tripwire, linked to an existing trigger

Links

The full post: https://www.euzoia.org/p/ec567ea4-76c7-4604-806e-55b988003318

Every week, one principle of a good life: https://www.euzoia.org