Investigating Indecision: Why We Can't Seem to Make Up Our Minds

There are a few biases they don't address:

• Narrow framing: the tendency to view an option as your only option.
• Confirmation bias: our tendency to gather the information that supports our preferred option.
• Short-term emotion: our tendency to have our judgment clouded when emotions run high.
• Overconfidence: our tendency to make a decision with too much optimism about how things will play out.

• Widen your options: challenge yourself to consider alternatives. 
• Reality-test your assumptions: run small experiments so you can know rather than predict which decision will work best for you.
• Attain distance before deciding with the try the 10/10/10 approach: How would you feel about this decision 10 minutes from now, 10 months from now, and 10 years from now?
• Prepare to be wrong: things could always go wrong. Prepare for it in advance.

• Successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and intuitive thinking.
• Opt for less information; stick to only what is essential. We may feel more confident when doing a lot of research, but this could lead to indecision and analysis paralysis.

Snap judgments are most accurate if these things are present: experience and expertise. In other words, we must train our intuition.

• Find out how much time you have to make the decision.
• Wait as long as possible to choose. By giving yourself extra time, you have more opportunities to explore your options and gain valuable insight.

This works best if you're a novice, as an expert generally won’t need to delay a decision.

Take into considerations these things:

• Intuition is best used by experts, not novices.
• Algorithms are better at decisions than the human brain.
• Take your time (but not too much of it).