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How to prioritize and simplify your life
The importance of rest and relaxation
The benefits of slowing down
Going In A Flow
Irreversible and reversible decisions exist on a continuum—they're not binary.
You need to plot your decision against each spectrum to determine the importance of the decision.
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The Bottom Line
- Once you start using this framework, you'll quickly learn that the vast majority of decisions are reversible.
- This will unlock considerable progress for yourself, your career, or your business.
- We should always aspire to speed, because time is the one resource we lack most.
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Applying The Decision Framework In Our Lives
Step 1: Determine whether the decision is reversible
Step 2: If it's reversible, have confidence in making the decision quickly
Step 3: For irreversible decisions, slow down and gather more information before deciding
Reversible...
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How The World's Second Richest Man Makes Decisions
- Jeffrey Bezos is the founder and former CEO of Amazon.
- With a net worth of US$182b, he's the world's second wealthiest person.
The Jeff Bezos Reversible vs. Irreversible Decisions Framework is a powerful mental model for unlocking growth in your career, business, ...
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Irreversible And Reversible Decisions
Some decisions are consequential and irreversible or nearly irreversible – one-way doors – and these decisions must be made methodically, carefully, slowly, with great deliberation and consultation. If you walk through and don’t like what you see on the other side, you can’t get ...
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There are some subtle traps that even high-performing large organizations can fall into as a matter of course, and we’ll have to learn as an institution how to guard against them. One common pitfall for large organizations – one that hurts speed and inventiveness – is ...
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The Three Dimensions
Decisions can be broken down in three dimensions:
1 Resource investment from a decision
2 The overall impact of a positive outcome
3 The impacts of a negative outcome
The process involves plotting a point along each spectrum to determine overall importance.
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Making Reversible Or Fixable Decisions Fast
You don't need to make the perfect decision all the time, and if you want to preserve your decision-making energy for the things that actually matter, then try to make decisions that are not critical (e. g. deciding what toilet paper to buy or which Airbnb to rent)
Creating the right decision-making framework for your support team
... based on the level of importance, and the level of team involvement:
- Open to team suggestions decisions: For these, open the question to the team (Slack conversations, surveys, or team meetings) to get feedback and ideas.
- Multiple-choice decisions
4. Make informed choices & stop complaining
Most of the decisions we take are reversible. Some of them easily reversible, some of them more difficult to change. But reversible, nonetheless.
"If you can’t take it anymore, you change it. Complaining is not an option and you’re not paying me to pity you. It’s in your power a...
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