Make Objective Decisions
Posted: September 12, 2017
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Making decisions can be hard. Even though we make tons of them each day, most of us struggle at one time or another. When faced with a major decision, we often look for extra guidance. Learning to step back and gain some objectivity can help set you on the path to making your decision.
G. John Cole, contributor to Dumb Little Man, helps us gain objectivity to make decisions.
While some folks bandy around the
statistic that we each make 35,000 decisions per day, others prefer to level it out at a neat 773,618 per lifetime.
Whatever way you look at it, you are at least aware of making a handful of semi-important to important decisions each day, and at least a couple of major-ish ones each week: and these are the kind of forking-path moments for which we need to be best advised. The wrong choice might wind you up with a heartache, crippling debt or serious injury.
Unfortunately, nobody ever teaches us how to make decisions. We’re just equipped with a ton of information through school, the media, and life, and expected to figure out how best to use it ourselves. This would be fine if we were robots, but when human values come into play we tend to frame the information we have in strange ways – for example, ‘confirmation bias’, where we focus on facts that back up our instincts rather than paying more attention to warning signs that we might be wrong.
What you need is a little objectivity. Let’s take a look at how to get some.
Read the entire article,
How to Make Objective Decisions, on
Dumb Little Man.