Decisive- How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work

Book title: Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work Book by Chip Heath and Dan Heath

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• A few practical recommendations for rational thinking:

1. Widen your options
   • never only just two choices
   • think about opportunity costs, or creative ways to get everything.
   • Find someone who has solved the same problem in the same or different domain.
2. Reality-test your assumptions.
   • What would it take for your assumptions to be wrong?
   • Can you test your assumptions?
3. Attain distance before deciding.
   • Get away from short-term emtions.
   • Define your core priorities.
4. Prepare to be wrong.
   • Define acceptable operating boundaries.
   • Define milestones that are acceptable operating boundaries.
   • Set tripwires where you will check along the way.