🤔 Decision Making

name Start a decision
type command
action QuickAdd: New Decision
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Strategies

• If the decision is a two-way door, it doesn’t have to be perfect
• Spend the first third of the time you will evaluate options rejecting all of them. Pick the next option better than all of those first third.
• If a decision seems too close to call, it’s probably a coin flip which option is better. Pick one and spend the time you would have spent making that decision making more easy decisions. Those are easy wins.
• Add weights to your pro and con list. Give each item a weight of 0-10. Add up each side’s score and see whether pro or con wins
• Imagine a wild success for your options. Does it excite you?
• Imagine a massive failure for your options. Can you handle it? What can you do now to try to prevent it?
• Most choices aren’t binary, but we try to make them that way. What are the other options you aren’t considering?
• Run your decision by other people, especially those without skin in the game.
• Take the time you need
  • This contradicts with the advice about hidden decisions
• Avoid making hidden decisions. By not deciding, you are deciding, just not by using your powers of reasoning.
• There is no “right” decision
• Make the decision that’s good enough and move on
• Which option(s) would you regret on your death bed?

Articles

• Why Emotionally Intelligent People Embrace the Two-Way Door Rule to Make Better, Faster Decisions
• The Simple Algorithm for Making Big Life Decisions
• Effective Decision-Making And Sweating The Small Stuff
• Six science-backed techniques to help you make hard decisions
• Adopting these 5 approaches could fix your bad decision making
• Mental Models: The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions (~100 Models Explained)

Resources

• Untools- Tools for better thinking

Decisions

table
file.mday as "Modified",
choice(contains(tags, "Decisions/Decided"), "Yes", "No") as "Decided"
from (#Decisions and "Devon/notes") or (#Decisions and "Shared/family/notes")
sort file.mday desc