From Shane Parrish's Decision Making Course. Perpetually Improve as a Decision Maker. The world’s top athletes, surgeons, and speakers know that the fastest way to progress is to know where you’re starting from, record your performance, and review it constantly. ...
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How to Avoid Stupidity
From Shane Parrish's Decision Making Course How to Avoid Stupidity You can be the smartest and most prepared person in the room, but certain predictable situations will reduce or eliminate this advantage. Why? Because certain situations overload our mental processing...
Preparation Over Prediction
From Shane Parrish's Decision Making Course Preparation Over Prediction The Automatic Behavior: Position for multiple possible futures. When I first started observing the masters of decision making, I thought they predicted the future. Now I know that’s not true. Most...
Establish Correct Automatic Behaviors
From Shane Parish's Decision Making Course Establish Correct Automatic Behaviors The Automatic Behavior: Determine the automatic behaviors in advance so you don’t have to decide in the moment. When a project is failing or an emergency hits, do you and your team...
The Right Information
From Shane Parrish's Decision Making Course The Right Information The quality of our decisions depends on the quality of the information we’re using to decide with. If the information we use is inaccurate, our predictions will be off base and the outcomes could be...
Anticipate the Future
From Shane Parrish's Decision Making Course Anticipate the Future. The Automatic Behavior: Anticipate the future and plan for obstacles. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could create a telescope into the future so we can anticipate what problems and opportunities might arise...
Owning the Frame
From Shane Parrish's Decision Making Course. Owning the Frame The Automatic Behavior: Do the work to find a credible third option. Many decisions seem like a choice between this or that. But the reality is, there is almost always another way. Forcing yourself to find...
The Most Important Thing
From Shane Parrish's Decision Making Course The Most Important Thing The Automatic Behavior: Identify and communicate the most important thing. In this lesson, we’re going to teach you techniques for achieving perfect clarity on identifying what you want. This is so...
When to Decide
From Shane Parrish's Decision Making Course When to Decide? The Automatic Behavior: Decide as soon as possible or as late as possible but never in between. Bad decisions are the result of information we wish we knew at the time of the decision so it makes sense that...
Find the Root Problem
From Shane Parrish Decision Making Course. The Automatic Behavior: Never let anyone define the problem for you. one of the most common things I see distracting great decision makers from taking charge and moving intentionally towards their objectives: accepting the...