If you don't take the time to set your priorities, someone else will set them for you. So here's a simple trick to improve your decision quality: expand-then-contract. Make sure you separate your decision framing process into two separate phases... The video explains.
Mental expansion and contraction in decision-making:
Phase 1 - Expand your field of view: Identify as many options as possible.
Phase 2 - Contract your field of view: Whittle down your options based on what's important to you.
This will help you strike a good balance between proactive and reactive decision-making and prevent you from getting overwhelmed by all your options.
(If you came here looking for data science content, did you read between the lines? The best thing for helping a decision-maker expand their options is analytics, while the best things for helping them contract their options into clear decision criteria is fact-finding, statistics, and classical decision science. Splitting your data and approaching decision-making in two phases is your secret weapon for maximizing your decision quality!)
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