Not Making Good Decisions

• Be aware of the cognitive biases that might influence your thinking, and then use debiasing techniques to reduce those biases (imagining you're you’re giving advice to a friend, for example)
• You can rely on your intuition when it’s appropriate to do so in quick decision making, but...

• We ignore the warning signs - feeling tired, emotional, distracted, in a rush...working in the "hurry up" culture.
• We focus on solving the wrong problem or fail to look at it in a broader sense.
• When we work on second-hand information...

Expert detectives have two main qualities:

• Detached involvement
• The ability to keep on asking questions

Good investigators don't make quick judgements. They know that their mind will try to convince them that their first impression is right. Instead, they force them...