The role of intuition in decision-making

• 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...

To make good decisions, we generally need to do the following:

• Identify the decision: recognizing the need to make a decision, and identifying what that decision involves.
• Set our goals: establishing what we want to achieve with the decision...

• 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...

• Complexity: the more complex a certain decision is, the harder it is to choose. A common reason for added complexity in decision-making is that there is a large number of options to choose from.
• Uncertainty: the more uncertainty is involved with a ...

Our emotions can makes us act in an irrational way and make bad decisions. But don't ignore your emotions entirely; they are not necessarily the cause of our bad decisions.

You should take your emotions into account in a rational way, without giving them the power to prevent you from condu...

There are a few personality traits that are found in indecisive individuals:

• Neuroticism: the tendency to be prone to negative emotions and psychological stress is strongly correlated with indecisiveness, as is perfectionism.
• Indecisiveness is associated with the tendency to...