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.
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Widen Your Options Reality-Test Your Assumptions Attain Distance Before Deciding Prepare to Be Wrong
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Is there a way I can do this AND that?
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Superb analysis is useless unless the decision process gives it a fair hearing.
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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.
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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.
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short-term emotion.
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“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.”
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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.
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7. Push for “this AND that” rather than “this OR that.”