Habits That Make You A Bad Decision-Maker: Over-Dependence

• We resent the person who comes in and tries to boss us around. This is because we are independent, self-sufficient people. Or at least that's what we tell ourselves.
• Yet if someone says something we disagree with, something inside us tells us we have to argue with them.
• We wo...

• Investors are right (and wrong) all the time for the “wrong reason.” Someone buys a stock because he or she expects a certain development; it doesn’t occur; the market takes the stock up anyway; the investor looks good (and invariably accepts credit).

• The correctness of a decision can’t...

• The main reason why decision-making is hard is that every decision makes us go through a process that is most times difficult and complex, and having difficulties with any part of it can hinder the whole process.
• The emotional difficulty that we face when w...