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Difficult decisions
Difficult decisions are mostly about weighing the long and short term values. Making objective decisions is difficult because we are biased towards short-term rewards and pre-existing beliefs.
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Zero-based thinking
It gives us the rare opportunity to ask ourselves if there anything in our lives that we should do more of, less of, start or stop.
It is a decision thinking technique developed by Brian Tracy.
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Question everything
Zero-based thinking opens up a world of possibilities that you might not otherwise consider. It helps you to think hard about your choices.
- Applying ZBT to your budget: Carefully decide how you would like to spend or invest your money as if you are starting from scratch.
- Applyi...
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Optimal choices
Ask yourself, knowing what you know now, is there anything you are doing today that you wouldn't do again if you were able to?
Be willing to stop doing what no longer works. Sometimes it is best to cut your losses and try something else. Be prepared to take risks and understand th...
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Emotional response
Our emotions are short-term biased
Our emotions are obsessed with the present moment because it’s difficult to look past our immediate fears and anxieties. And this prevents good decision-making.
The sweet spot in decision-making is to find the short-term failures that enable ...
Biased Group Decisions
One of the strange effects of conformity is that the decisions made as a group are prejudiced, biased and less intelligent than those made by an individual.
When people interact, they do not normally want to learn something new but are much happier conforming to their ...
Why we avoid making difficult decisions
People are averse to making (objectively and subjectively) difficult choices because they don’t want the stress of weighing all the options or the responsibility of dealing with the eventual outcome — both, good and bad.
It makes us not want to make hard choices and come u...
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