Chip Heath

Decisive

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  • orkhanjabbarlihas quoted8 years ago
    Focusing is great for analyzing alternatives but terrible for spotting them. Think about the visual analogy—when we focus we sacrifice peripheral vision. And there’s no natural corrective for this; life won’t interrupt our focus to draw our attention to all of our options.
  • Ann Yeliseyevahas quoted4 years ago
    Widen Your Options
    Reality-Test Your Assumptions
    Attain Distance Before Deciding
    Prepare to Be Wrong
  • Darlene Kawilaranghas quoted5 years ago
    Is there a way I can do this AND that?
  • Darlene Kawilaranghas quoted5 years ago
    Superb analysis is useless unless the decision process gives it a fair hearing.
  • Darlene Kawilaranghas quoted5 years ago
    What’s in the spotlight will rarely be everything we need to make a good decision, but we won’t always remember to shift the light.
  • Vanaya04969has quoted7 years ago
    Our normal habit in life is to develop a quick belief about a situation and then seek out information that bolsters our belief. And that problematic habit, called the “confirmation bias,” is the second villain of decision making.
  • Vanaya04969has quoted7 years ago
    short-term emotion.
  • Vanaya04969has quoted7 years ago
    “Any time in life you’re tempted to think, ‘Should I do this OR that?’ instead, ask yourself, ‘Is there a way I can do this AND that?’ It’s surprisingly frequent that it’s feasible to do both things.”
  • orkhanjabbarlihas quoted8 years ago
    Throughout Walton’s career, he kept his eyes out for good ideas. He once said that “most everything I’ve done I’ve copied from someone else.
  • orkhanjabbarlihas quoted8 years ago
    7. Push for “this AND that” rather than “this OR that.”
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