Decision Making
Danielle Vermeer and
Decision Making
When stumped by a life choice, choose “enlargement” over happiness. I’m indebted to the Jungian therapist James Hollis for the insight that major personal decisions should be made not by asking, “Will this make me happy?”, but “Will this choice enlarge me or diminish me?” We’re terrible at predicting what will make us happy: the question swiftly... See more
Oliver Burkeman • Oliver Burkeman's Last Column: The Eight Secrets to a (Fairly) Fulfilled Life
An entire metric of thought which is both impactful but also ignored
Taste – or lack of it – is the silent metric that permeates absolutely everything we create, and which has a far bigger bearing on success or failure than we’d care to admit.
The ability to intuitively discern the intrinsic harmony within something.
nature is intrinsically harmonious
how can you cultivate taste?
elevate your cultural diet so you can elevate your taste —> genre crossing ability.
View appreciation as a general skill
by learning to appreciate we learn to discern. by discerning we learn to decide. by deciding we learn to strategise.
“If you're ever wondering what is the right decision, ‘Should I do this, or should I do that? Should I live here, or should I live there? Should I take this job or that job?’ that just the act of choosing one and wholeheartedly committing to it makes your choice the best choice. It is your commitment itself that can make any choice the right choice... See more
-Derek Sivers
“Honestly, most of running something (team, business, etc). Is locking yourself in a room with a blank spreadsheet and making a simple matrix that simplifies your challenges and objectives, assigning someone as an owner, and setting a few metrics that define success.” - Private tweet from Davis Bell
Learn through action, not rumination…Rather than try to perform endless thought experiments to gain clarity, we can choose a direction and then create the reasons for why we did so. That is to say: instead of making the right choice, we have the power, through our actions, to make the choice right.