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    A Joosr Guide to... Decisive by Chip and Dan Heath: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
    A Joosr Guide to... Decisive by Chip and Dan Heath: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
    A Joosr Guide to... Decisive by Chip and Dan Heath: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
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    A Joosr Guide to... Decisive by Chip and Dan Heath: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work

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    In today's fast-paced world, it's tough to find the time to read. But with Joosr guides, you can get the key insights from bestselling non-fiction titles in less than 20 minutes. Whether you want to gain knowledge on the go or find the books you'll love, Joosr's brief and accessible eBook summaries fit into your life. Find out more at joosr.com.

    We'd all like to make better decisions, whether in our personal, professional, or even our romantic lives. Unfortunately, our decision-making abilities are disrupted by cognitive biases and the irrational tendencies of our brains. It's time to take back control of your decision-making process, by implementing appropriate coping strategies.

    Decisive outlines the four main obstacles to making effective decisions and how to overcome them. Through a series of specific tools and practical techniques, you will learn how to think more clearly about your options and improve your decision-making in any situation.

    You will learn:

    · How to prevent your preconceptions from influencing your decisions

    · What to do when you don't have time to process your decisions

    · How to make more logical choices.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJoosr
    Release dateSep 30, 2016
    ISBN9781785674822
    A Joosr Guide to... Decisive by Chip and Dan Heath: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work

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      Our daily lives are full of decisions to be made: when to set our alarms, what food to fuel our bodies with, where we eat lunch, which bus to catch, what clothes to put on, what time to leave work, how we’d like to spend our evening, and who with. It is nigh on impossible to avoid making choices in almost every area of our lives. The problem is that our brains don’t always let us make the right choice. Our past experiences, our present feelings, and our visions for the future cause us to have natural biases, and these shape the way we arrive at our decisions.

      Statistics show that often we are not very happy with the choices we make. For example, an American Bar Association survey found that only 44 percent of lawyers would recommend a young person to pursue a career in law. This example is niche, but it demonstrates that it is not uncommon for us to make incredibly important decisions—such as those related to our future career—and then later come to regret them entirely. We enter into relationships with people who are bad for us, we don’t save enough

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