Best 5 Tips for Decision Making
We need to decide on every action converted from thoughts, whether it is executing the big plan or as trivial as uttering a word (Politicians or Businessman in public speech).
Q: What makes a good decision? When I ask people that question, I often get answers like:
| “When the outcome is successful.”
But is it the case always? Fyodor Dostoevsky famously said:
| “Everything seems stupid when it fails.”
We can never predict the future, nor can we know all mental models that exist. But we can make decisions we don’t regret. With that, you need to make sure that no decision comes from impulse or is taken solely with emotion or logic. It should be well thought by considering the impact of the outcome, the process to achieve it, and its intention.
An analogy of Bow-n-Arrow:
In Decision Making, the only thing in your control is to make a decision, NOT its outcome. As many factors play an important role in the journey between taking action to the outcome, which has the potential to change the outcome, in the case of shooting an Arrow, after you shoot, before hitting to target, it goes through different factors like the speed of the wind, the rain, the aim, the power, etc. Lastly, it hits the target if all the factors are in…
