From the course: How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices
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Six steps to better decision-making
From the course: How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices
Six steps to better decision-making
- [Narrator] Six steps to better decision making, making your view of the future crystal clearer. Up to this point, we've exclusively focused on how we evaluate past decisions. The thing about the past though is that you can't change it. But what you can do is apply what you learned from the past to all the new decisions you have yet to make by developing a repeatable process for better decision making. Your greatest challenge as a decision maker is seeing things that by their nature are going to be hazy. For past decisions, you're reconstructing the decision while navigating your way through distortion inducing biases. For new decisions, you're looking into the future which is inherently uncertain. This six-step process will help you improve the quality of both new decisions on your horizon and your assessment of past decisions. It's hard to accurately assess a decision after the fact, in the shadow of an outcome that…