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The Best Decision- Making Is Emotional
We make decisions all day long, and many of them are emotionally driven. Rarely do we sift through all the available information to ensure we know every fact. And we don’t need to. It is all about degrees of certainty.
Simon Sinek • Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
The strongest indicators that you're about to make a terrible decision:
1. Endless overthinking of pros and cons
2. Chasing certainty
3. Chasing even more data instead of feeling your emotions
4. Trying to manage outcomes vs being who you are
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This advice may sound familiar; it lies at the heart of books like Blink and Gary Klein’s The Power of Intuition, which promise to help readers harness their gut feelings. But for executives taught to methodically frame problems, consider alternatives, collect data, weigh the options, and then decide, cultivating emotional self-awareness may seem... See more