The Decision-Making Blueprint

The Decision-Making Blueprint is a comprehensive guide to making better decisions, avoiding errors and expensive mistakes, learning how to automate your mind to choose better alternatives, and ultimately, improving your life by upgrading the decision-making process.

In general, people tend to look for ways to support their beliefs or values, even though they may be wrong or inaccurate. We are naturally inclined to look for information. This is to back up our beliefs. This is what the confirmation bias stated.

Despite being shown facts and reliable sources of information on a certain topic, people choose to disagree with them if they do not fit their preset perspective. This bias can harm one’s decision-making process and even the capacity to analyze certain topics objectively. This is why it’s particularly important to spot this faulty trait.

Another harmful cognitive prejudice is the self-serving bias. This one interferes with our well-being. It states that people tend to take responsibility for successful outcomes, but fail to do so for negative events. This fallacy can negatively impact one’s morale, as they might present a different persona to the outside world, feeling as if their true personality isn’t good enough as it is.

Although these biases are impossible to overcome fully, acknowledging them and developing critical thinking can help one diminish them. We are error-program. We are not perfect. Working on them by being objective and analytical of yourself will help you improve your way of thinking, and implicitly, the decision-making process.

As humans, we have a tendency to react negatively to change and maintain the status quo. This happens because we are program to preserve energy. The losses from potential change count more than the success from potential gains.

Therefore, people choose to keep things still by going to the same restaurants because of familiarity. This is not necessarily a bad thing, as it can help save time and energy, but it can also impede us from seizing opportunities.

This bias has a huge impact on our decision-making process. You can fall prey to manipulative people by being naturally incline in choosing the default option. You miss out on great potential benefits from other outcomes. To avoid that, you should first acknowledge that you have a psychological commitment to the familiar.

Poor decisions can indeed go worse than simple inaction, but that’s not always the case. Whenever you are presented with an opportunity and feel like passing on it, ask yourself if you feel that way due to your preference for familiar, comfortable, and the default option, or because it is truly not something you’d like to try out.