Decide with judgment
Self-Help · Intermediate
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Make better decisions by recognizing your biases and using simple tools before you choose.
Micro-habits to get started
Small actions of a few minutes to start this habit:
Widen your options
Faced with a 'do it or don't', ask yourself: 'what else could I do?'. There are almost always more than two paths.
Most bad decisions come from framing things as binary.
2 minGain distance
Ask what you'd advise a good friend in your situation, or what you'll think of this in ten years.
Distance dissolves the emotional noise of the moment.
2 minRun a pre-mortem
Imagine you already decided and it went badly: why did it fail? Anticipating the reasons reveals risks that enthusiasm hides.
Don't decide when tired or heated: fatigue and emotion worsen judgment.
3 min