7 Ways To Learn To Make Decisions

 In today's world, where the choice is virtually unlimited, the desire to choose the best option leads to one disorder.

Trying to choose the best, we start to postpone the choice and sooner or later roll into procrastination.

Argentine researchers Maria Uliana Leone and Mariano Sigman conducted several experiments and found out.

The ability to make choices generally depends on the time of day.

Take note and try to make the most important decisions in the morning when you are not tired of work, household chores, and other routines

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There is a kind of trick that helps to avoid this fatigue: transfer the burden of choice on other people's shoulders.

Dr. Sheena Iyengar, the author of "The Art of Choice," gives an example.

Wine continues to please me because I don't make an effort in choosing it

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Actually, you don't even need the help of strangers, To pass on them a choice. You can rely on the power of the habits. For example, Steve Jobs wore constantly the same shirts and jeans.

You can do the same: choose the right food, clothing or accessories once, and then just follow the habit.

Another option is to choose between a few equivalent options by accident. its watch.

To choose between all sorts of everyday things, I use the "Talk with the Clock" method.

Same success, you can throw dice or toss a coin, just like Harvey Dent.

In fact, a delegation of choice and clock tricks are only good for the little things - if you can't decide what to eat for breakfast or what tie to tie.

It was invented by Greg McKeon, author of "When we make a choice, each available option usually has pros and cons.

It's just sanity.

Rule 90 percent makes it much easier to make decisions: if the option has more than 10% of the cons and less than 90% of the pros, it should not be taken. "Think about how you would feel if you scored 65 out of 100 in a test," McKeon writes. "You'll probably be disappointed. Do you want to feel the same way you have made an important choice?"

In his popular blog, "Wait But Why Tim Urban advised his readers to make decisions - even such important ones, like marriage or career choice - using "8 thought experiments that will make you think".

For example, you're wondering whether to continue your romance or better break up with your partner. If so, you are afraid not of a breakup, but of the hassle and trouble that accompanies it.

Or, for example, you want to go on a trip, but you can't make up your mind.

Urban says that such thought experiments allow people who are obsessed with logic and try to follow the voice of reason all the time, to start listening to their intuition.