The Art of Strategic Decision-Making by Peter Hollins
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Overwhelmed and paralyzed by your choices? Learn how to get it right the first time - improve your analysis, judgment, and intuition. Unfortunately, you can’t just rely on your gut instinct or “hunch” when you make decisions. There’s a science to improving your critical thinking, weighing pros and cons, and avoiding the traps that take you down the wrong path. Make smart decisions by catching your brain's built-in flaws.
The Art of Strategic Decision-Making will teach you to seize control of your life and make sure your decisions aren’t making you. This book cites years of research and scientific studies about what constitutes a great decision and the factors that will inevitably lead you there. It is an in-depth look at human nature and psychology and why we make decisions in the way we do - for better or for worse. This book is packed with theory, but it is all practical and actionable. Use these mental models and pieces of analysis on your decisions TODAY.
Think more quickly and more thoroughly – at the same time. Peter Hollins has studied psychology and the human condition for over a dozen years. This book contains tactics pulled from his personal experience, as well as some of the most famous studies in decision theory and social psychology to help you make snap decisions. Beat analysis paralysis and eliminate indecision.
•Learn your subconscious motivations, needs, and desires that hijack your brain. •Discover the surprising causes and cures for decision fatigue. •Over 10 of the most dangerous cognitive biases and decision traps. •How to make your pros and cons lists incredibly useful and illuminating. •The 6 Hats Method of intelligent decisions and how you can inhabit different perspectives. •The WRAP method of planning for failure in decisions. •How to think outside the box and creatively solve problems. Optimize your decisions even under stress, pressure, and uncertainty. When you master decision making, you can control your happiness and seize the opportunities life gives you. Better decisions more information and understanding and less stress and anxiety.
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Transcript
During my fourth and final year of college,
I was guilty of making some fairly bad decisions.
Some of them are unfit to be public and involve cans of spray paint and silly string,
but one of them was about the apartment I shared with my friends.
We had been looking for about two weeks for a new apartment because our current place was starting to show its age and our lease was almost up.
We viewed listing after listing and attended a few open houses until I finally couldn’t take it anymore.
No one could make a decision about anything.
It wasn’t so much that we needed the place,
but I was frustrated and my impatience took over my brain.
I took it upon myself to speed up the process and push a decision.
When it was finally down to two apartments,
I heavily pushed one of the apartments,
and everyone was on board and took my recommendation so they could get back to their busy lives.
At first glance,
this sounds like a story about decisiveness and taking charge,
but it’s really quite the opposite.
One of my roommates had a dog—a little chihuahua named Banana—that was our apartment’s mascot.
Every other apartment we looked at was completely fine with dogs,
but the apartment I chose was most definitely not.
I overlooked this crucial factor in my eagerness to be done with the process.
We contemplated sneaking him in and out of the building for a year but decided it was not in our best interests.
What ended up happening was that I confessed to our future landlord,
and we had to pay an extra one hundred dollars a month.
When I say “we” I mean “I” because I footed the bill on account of it being solely my mistake.
The biggest sin I committed in this decision-making gaffe was assuming that I had all the information.
I was lazy.
I relied upon an assumption and didn’t do the legwork to confirm or deny the assumption.
I also struggled under the burden of making the decision for two other people (and a dog) and felt stress and anxiety from the pending deadline.
It was a perfect storm for me to miss an important detail that cost me over a one thousand dollars.
Decision making isn’t necessarily an art form,
but there are very specific ways that human beings can make incredibly suboptimal decisions without even knowing.
