decision-making

“So your mental model's job is basically to blind you. It's to blind you to 99.9999% of all the pertinent reality data that could possibly be salient to a decision so that you're paying attention to an extremely narrow stream of information. That's the purpose …”

“Good and evil, if you think about it, is a very, very good way Of simplifying that whole area of decision making, where if you simply decide that a certain group is good and other groups are evil, everything else gets massively simplified.”

“I went from thinking, you know, I'm right, to asking myself, how do I know I'm right? In other words, how do I triangulate? It gave me the humility I needed To balance with my audacity.”

“I think it's a more frustrating kind of uncertainty where it's actually not necessary, but the thing that's sort of limited is your, is essentially the cost of obtaining further information, reducing that uncertainty. And so you're left in this sort of dissati…”

“What I found is cognitive biases are sort of great for explaining why we make mistakes in hindsight, but they're not necessarily really good for preventing or anticipating mistakes in the future, because what happens is any reasonably intelligent person sits d…”

“There is no skill called decision making. There's no skill called problem solving. It's all contextual.”

“Whatever makes you take the necessary actions Is the perspective that helps you? I'm never aiming for reality. I'm trying to make decisions usually based on finding the perspective that helps me take actions.”

“Giving yourself the time to roll ideas around as long as they need to be rolled around and not feel the premature need for closure.”

“And the reason you haven't paid a choice now is because neither of them are that good. If one of them was awesome, you'd have already made the choice.”

“One thing I learned was every day is much easier than four days a week. You might think four days a week is easier because it's less often, but every day removes the most difficult thing about life is choosing and every day removes choice.”

“Whatever the margin of error would be between one decision or the other is far smaller than whatever the opportunity costs of not having it done. And moved on to the next thing are.”

“And that's to your point of sometimes not making a decision is making a decision. It's creating an outcome, but avoiding responsibility for it. And it's pretty common in bureaucracies where people are not incentivized to take risk. Where people tend to be puni…”

“Your one technique that's worked very well for me is you start with what action would need to be executed to be effective. And then you back plan and figure out how long it would take to implement that action. And so that's your decision point. You must make t…”

“How do you evaluate their decision making? You run them through a scenario, see what choices they make, find out what their rationale is, find out the reasons that they're picking one thing over another, and use that to determine if you think that their mental…”

“Look, one of the difficult things about making decisions is it reduces opportunity in the short term, but that's the only thing that really creates great opportunity in the long term. So if you don't make decisions, you try to live too much in a kind of a limi…”

“There's tendencies for people when they get to a stressful moment to hold their breath, which then tenses their body, which then, you know, doesn't allow them to make the proper decision.”

“Learning that you can trust your emotions actually is the core of how you regulate your emotions and how you make good decisions, because you can use your energy around, okay, what do I do next, instead of all the energy of, like, trying to figure out what's g…”