Introductions
For most people making a decision can be very stressful and they find themselves overwhelmed and stressed out throughout their decision process. Making a decision for most people can be a long and overthought process, filled with indecisiveness. In the book Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work by Chip and Dan Heath, teaches you how to make decisions that you can live with and the current mistakes that we make today in our current decision process, which they call the villains throughout the book. This book gave a lot of good scenarios, to help you understand each of the decision making process.
Book Analysis
One of the main questions that I thought was for informative was; how can we stop the cycle of agonizing over our decisions? In this book they talk about a method called …show more content…
Sometimes our emotions can take over and lead us in the wrong direction of our decision process. When having to make big decisions we can become blinded by our emotions and start to lose all perspectives of the situation and begin to change our mind on our decision, this can continue to go on until you have to give your final answer. This villain is the short term emotions. When dealing with this you should use a technique invented by Suzy Welch called “10/10/10, we think about our decisions on three different time frames: How will we feel about it 10 minutes from now? How about 10 months from now? How about 10 years from now? (Heath & Heath, 2013)”. This is one of the many ways to create some distance from your decision making; it also helps to prioritize some of the more important factors in your decision process. Another process that was given in the book was by asking the question “what would I tell my best friend to do in this situation (Heath & Heath,
For most people making a decision can be very stressful and they find themselves overwhelmed and stressed out throughout their decision process. Making a decision for most people can be a long and overthought process, filled with indecisiveness. In the book Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work by Chip and Dan Heath, teaches you how to make decisions that you can live with and the current mistakes that we make today in our current decision process, which they call the villains throughout the book. This book gave a lot of good scenarios, to help you understand each of the decision making process.
Book Analysis
One of the main questions that I thought was for informative was; how can we stop the cycle of agonizing over our decisions? In this book they talk about a method called …show more content…
Sometimes our emotions can take over and lead us in the wrong direction of our decision process. When having to make big decisions we can become blinded by our emotions and start to lose all perspectives of the situation and begin to change our mind on our decision, this can continue to go on until you have to give your final answer. This villain is the short term emotions. When dealing with this you should use a technique invented by Suzy Welch called “10/10/10, we think about our decisions on three different time frames: How will we feel about it 10 minutes from now? How about 10 months from now? How about 10 years from now? (Heath & Heath, 2013)”. This is one of the many ways to create some distance from your decision making; it also helps to prioritize some of the more important factors in your decision process. Another process that was given in the book was by asking the question “what would I tell my best friend to do in this situation (Heath & Heath,