Decisive

How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work

Hardcover, 336 pages

Published March 25, 2013 by Currency.

ISBN:
978-0-307-95639-2
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The four principles that can help us to overcome our brains' natural biases to make better, more informed decisions – in our lives, careers, families and organizations.

In Decisive, Chip Heath and Dan Heath, the bestselling authors of Made to Stick and Switch, tackle the thorny problem of how to overcome our natural biases and irrational thinking to make better decisions, about our work, lives, companies and careers.

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In the book “Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work”, authors Chip and Dan Heath describe a four-step process for decision-making.

The pros and cons approach is limited. Psychologists say humans look for confirmation for our beliefs. We make choices using short-term emotions. We’re overconfident about our ability to predict the future.

The premise behind the decision process here is that as humans we have illogical biases to overcome. Each step is designed to counter those natural biases