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Those who feel they have more control, who feel empowered to make decisions instead of waiting for approval, suffer less stress.
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36 |
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Temporal landmarks slow our thinking, allowing us to deliberate at a higher level and make better decisions.
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96 |
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Many ‘when’ decisions involve endings. And one of the biggest is when to leave a job that just isn’t working out. That’s a big step, a risky move, and not always a choice for some people.
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168 |
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We live in a world that assumes that the quality of a decision is directly related to the time and effort that went into making it.
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13 |
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…decisions made very quickly can be every bit as good as decisions made cautiously and deliberately.
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14 |
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…if we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments.
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52 |
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Sometimes we’re better off if the mind behind the locked door makes our decisions for us.
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61 |
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…when it comes to even the most important positions, our selection decisions are a good deal less rational than we think.
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88 |
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…[in improv], people [make] very sophisticated decisions on the spur of the moment, without the benefit of any kind of script or plot.
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113 |
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…when experts make decisions, they don’t logically and systematically compare all available options. That is the way people are taught to make decisions, but in real life it is much too slow.
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