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In the morning, Xiao waited for the bus at the bus stop. The bus didn't come. "I have been waiting for so long. Can't I wait now? " Wait a little longer. "Small A decided. After waiting for ten minutes, the bus still didn't come. Finally, he took the subway instead, but he was still late. In the afternoon, Xiao is going out to meet a client. He looked at the cloudy sky and thought, "It didn't rain yesterday, so you don't need to take an umbrella today. "Soon it began to rain cats and dogs, and Xiao A became a drowned rat. In the evening, Xiao turned on the computer and found that the fund bought a few days ago fell. " This fund has been earning a lot of money before. I am really unlucky. "Small A lamented.

Xiao A made three wrong decisions in one day and produced three bad results. On the surface, this is a little bad luck, but in the view of Robbins, an expert in management and organizational behavior, it is no accident. Behind every decision, there is a certain psychological tendency, which directly affects the process and result of decision-making. In the above story, Xiao considered the sunk cost and mistook the past investment for the present investment. At the same time, he made the mistake of representative deviation, thinking that the past situation will continue in the future, but in fact what happened before has no influence on what happened in the future.

Everyone has to make many decisions in his life, such as which school and major to choose, which city to live in, what job to look for and who to marry ... These decisions have fundamentally changed our lives. Even dozens of simple decisions made every day will become a powerful force to change our daily lives. Decision-making ability is the most important ability in life, but no one has ever taught us how to make a decision. Many people make decisions by intuition or experience, and finally regret it. Rational control of work and life: making a good decision is a book that everyone who wants to make a good decision must read. The book gives six standard steps of rational decision-making and 12 targeted suggestions to teach you to avoid psychological traps and improve your decision-making ability.

Know your character.

Personality will affect the way a person makes decisions. People who dare to take risks will be more impulsive and bold when making decisions, and are not afraid to bear the consequences; People who are conservative will be relatively cautious and tend to choose more insurance schemes to avoid risks. Knowing your personality tendency can help you understand what factors are affecting you in the decision-making process, so as to decide what this means to you, and how to use your personality to have a positive impact on decision-making and avoid negative effects. This book lists seven tests to help you understand your personality tendency and establish your own personality file.

Determine your goals.

Failure to plan in advance is the biggest stumbling block to effective decision-making. When making major decisions, having no goals will lead us to be short-sighted, attach importance to those schemes with relatively certain results and underestimate those schemes with long-term consequences. For example, if you don't have a long-term plan for your studies, you are likely to be attracted by a seemingly good job when you graduate from high school and regret not choosing to go to college many years later. For many small things in life, it is also important to set goals from the beginning. Before entering the restaurant, think about what to eat today, "I want to eat fish or chicken" or "I don't want to eat too spicy", so that your chances of being at a loss about the menu or being promoted to something you don't like by the waiter will be greatly reduced.

Standard steps of rational decision-making

The basis of good decision-making is rationality. The correct decision requires you to collect information comprehensively, carefully analyze and study different schemes, and finally make a decision. This is a rational process, not by feeling or experience. The author summarizes the steps of rational decision-making into six steps:

1, identify and determine the problem.

2. Confirm the decision criteria. Decision makers should distinguish between what is relevant and what is important in the decision-making process, and the factors not included in this step have nothing to do with the decision makers.

3. Evaluation criteria. Decision makers should evaluate the criteria determined in the previous step and list their importance in decision-making.

4. Make an alternative plan. The decision maker has come up with all the solutions to the problem.

5. Evaluate each alternative. After determining the alternatives, compare them with the standards in step 2 and score each standard.

6. Choose the scheme with the highest score

What influenced our decision?

If we want to make a good decision, we must understand what is affecting our decision. This book lists the common psychological traps when 17 makes decisions, and gives the decision-making skills to avoid these traps. This is also my most interesting part. There is a fixed psychological pattern behind every wrong decision, and we often fall into it unconsciously, just like a squirrel in a cage, running desperately, but actually staying in the same place.

Decision-making needs to be rational, but absolute rationality does not exist. Each of us carries a burden when we know things, which includes past experiences, attitudes, hobbies and knowledge and experience. If these are excluded, it is impossible to carry out thinking activities at all. So almost at the same time as we think, non-objectivity inevitably arises. At the same time, the current mood also affects us. Anger, excitement, hope and fear … will destroy our rationality, limit our attention and lead to wrong decisions. Nevertheless, we can learn to perceive the psychological traps we often fall into in advance and adopt some scientific skills to eliminate or reduce the negative effects of these non-objective factors on decision-making as much as possible, so that the decision-making process tends to be rational.

In this book, the irrational factors affecting decision-making are listed in chapters, and the common phenomena in life are analyzed in detail, and different decision-making suggestions are given at the end of each chapter. After reading it, you will feel that you have not only gained decision-making skills, but also the psychological mystery behind it.

12 efficient decision-making suggestions

These suggestions are applicable to all situations, and taking these general principles into account when making decisions can avoid making some mistakes from the beginning.

Without goals, there is no effective decision.

Sometimes, doing nothing is the best choice

Choosing not to make a decision is also a decision.

Today's decision will severely limit future decisions.

Life is long, but there are only a few key decisions.

Efficient decision makers know when enough is enough.

Give yourself up to six choices.

Dwelling on past decisions will only waste your time.

Successful people know how to take risks.

Everyone makes mistakes.

Experience can improve strategy, but ...

Your culture determines your decision-making style.

Finally, anyone who reads this book should understand two things: First, this book can't help you make a decision. Even if you master the principles and skills of decision-making, you still need to search information carefully, analyze it carefully, and then make a decision. Second, perfect decision-making ability does not guarantee that all decisions will produce the results you want. The purpose of this book is to improve the probability of good results.

What does life depend on? Luck or fate is not. The author believes that luck is to make the right decision at the right time, and a large part of luck is the right decision. If you make a rash decision, you will give your future to fate. Your life can be controlled by yourself, and the key is to make the right decision.