Focusing is great for analyzing alternatives but terrible for spotting them. When we focus we sacrifice peripheral vision.

Multitracking involves considering several options simultaneously. Multitracking has another advantage too, one that is more unexpected. It feels better.

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It describes the process that “wraps” around your usual way of making decisions, helping to protect you from some of the villains and biases related to decision making:

• Widen your options.
• Reality-test your assumptions.
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We sometimes make bad decisions because we are too much into the weeds in our head. There are 2 main views we hold:

• The inside view - our evaluation of our specific situation.
• The outside view - how things generally unfold in situa...

To use 10/10/10, think about your decisions on three different time frames: How will I feel about it 10 minutes from now? How about 10 months from now? How about 10 years from now?

Conducting a 10/10/10 analysis doesn’t presuppose that the long-term perspective is the right...

• Studies found that the confirmation bias was stronger in emotion-laden domains such as religion or politics and also when people had a strong underlying motive to believe one way or the other.
• Confirmation bias increases when people have previously invested a...

Our decisions are often altered by two subtle short-term emotions:

1. mere exposure to things we are used to: we like what’s familiar to us
2. loss aversion: losses are more painful than gains are pleasant.

Loosing sucks and we subconscio...