Parrish: Reviewing Decisions the Next Morning Shifts Thinking to System Two
Shane Parrish · #128 Ryan Holiday: A Stoic Life · Jan 11, 2022 · at 1:02:35
Host Shane Parrish discusses decision-making heuristics and reflection strategies with author Ryan Holiday.
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“So in decision-making, we advocate sort of an approach when we work with people on improving their decision-making about write the decision down at night that you're about to make, and then read it in the morning and see if it still makes sense to you. And what you're really doing is you're doing a couple of things, right? Like you're, Processing whether you comprehend that in a way that you can explain it to yourself. You're checking in with your rational and emotional self. You're taking yourself out of system one. You're putting yourself in system two when you go the night and you read it in the morning. Most of the time you're like, oh, that, you know, maybe that doesn't make sense or that wording isn't quite right. And you can sort of self correct. And I think that it also helps you reflect on the decision. What are the variables that matter? How are you thinking about it? And you're getting out of that sort of like instinctive response, and you're putting yourself in a situation where you're improving the odds that you're at least using reasoning.”
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