A Scientific Approach to Making Better Decisions
How We Can Get Better at Making Decisions
We make 35,000 decisions a day so some sources suggest. Yep, you heard it right, 35,000. That’s 2,000 decisions every waking hour. Quite frankly it seems silly that could be the case, however…
You did decide to read this article, sip your coffee, scratch your arm, think about something else, then bring yourself back to thinking about this article. There are 5 decisions in one sentence.
We have a lot of decisions to make.
We Are the Decisions We Make
Decisions are the backbone of our life. They greet us at every cross-road and every hard question has a decision at the end of it. Decisions are, for some (if you’re anything like me), the bane of your life. It takes a considerable amount of time to make a decision and you’ll perhaps spend considerably more time thinking whether you’d made the right decision.
Decisions are hard because you don’t know what’s on the other side, they can sometimes feel vast and daunting. On the flip side, you can spend countless hours obsessing about a decision that has relatively no impact on your life.
We are the sum total of our decisions. Who we decide to be. If you decide to prioritise your…
