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Decision Making

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Structuring choice sometimes means helping people to learn, so they can later make better choices on their own.

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In isolation, people work themselves up into fits of vengeful rage. They make bad, impulsive decisions because they read situations incorrectly.

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The decision to try to forgive reflects more the kind of person you are than the beliefs you think you adhere to.

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Relativity helps us make decisions in life. But it can also make us downright miserable. Why? Because jealousy and envy spring from comparing our lot in life with that of others.

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…the power of the first decision can have such a long-lasting effect that it will percolate into our future decisions for years to come.

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…to make informed decisions we need to somehow experience and understand the emotional state we will be in at the other side of the experience.

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…we all have doors – little and big ones – which we ought to shut.

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In fact, choosing between two things that are similarly attractive is one of the most difficult decisions we can make.

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Indeed, it can be rather depressing to realize that we all continually make irrational decisions in our personal, professional, and social lives.

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…the fact that we make mistakes also means that there are always ways to improve our decisions…

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