Decisive - How to make better de

As mentioned in part 1, there're four villains of decision making, and the nature of each villain suggests a strategy for defeating it.

Follow Your Gut

1. You encounter a choice, but narrow framing makes you miss options, so Widen Your Options. (How can you expand your set of choices?)

- Avoid a Narrow Frame

- Multitrack

- Find Someone Who's Solved Your Problem

2. You analyze your options, but the confirmation bias leads you to gather self-serving info, so Reality-Test Your Assumptions. (How can you get outside your head and collect info that you can trust)

- Consider the Opposite

- Zoom Out, Zoom in

- Ooch (to ooch is to construct small experiments to test one's hypoothesis)

3. You make a choice, but short-term emotion will often tempt you to make the wrong one, so Attain Distance Before Deciding. (How can you overcome short-term emotion and conflicted feeling to make the best choice?)

- Overcome Short-Term Emotion

- Honor Your Core Priorities

4. Then you live with it, but you'll often be overconfident about how the future will unfold, so Prepare to Be Wrong. (How can we plan for an uncertain future so that we give our decisions the best chance to succeed?)

- Bookend the Future

-Set a Tripwire

The four steps in WRAP model are sequential, our decisions will never be perfect, but they can be better, bolder and wiser, the right process can steer us toward the right choice, and the right choice, at the right moment, can make all the difference.