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Actively managing delay

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.

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TRELLO

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

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Avoid making bad snap decisions

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.

Pros-and-cons lists are flawed

There are a few biases they don't address:

The WRAP technique for decision making

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.
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The brain when we make decisions

The 2 systems of the brain that wok during decision making:

The 37%

Mathematics dictates that you should take 37% of the time or options you have to simply look and after that, you should commit to the first option that is better than everything you’ve seen so far.

Making snap judgments

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

Deciding how to decide

Take into considerations these things: