2023-10-02
1 小时 2 分钟If you want to think about decision making, there's sort of like three key aspects to it.
The position you find yourself in.
Can you manage your defaults?
And then can you think independently?
And you can't think independently unless you have the first two.
It's counterintuitive, but you have to go a little bit slower.
You have to think long term instead of short term.
I have this saying that a lack of patience changes the outcome.
Often.
We know how to get exactly what we want, and we know what it takes to get what we want.
But we think we can speed that up.
So have you ever felt paralyzed when facing an important decision?
The sheer number of choices and variables and potential outcomes can make it feel impossible to chart the right course.
But what if making better decisions didn't have to be so mystifying?
What if small tweaks to how we approach problems could lead to extraordinary results?
My guest today, Shane Parrish, has devoted his career to studying how we make decisions.
As the founder of Farnham street, the host of the Knowledge Project podcast, and acclaimed author of the new book clear turning ordinary moments into extraordinary results, Shane has helped everyone from icons of industry, finance, and sport to parents, freelancers, and beyond improve their ability to think more clearly, to make better decisions, and get better results.
And Shane's deep interest in this field started in an unusual way.
After getting his dream job in canadian intelligence just before 911, Shane found himself making life or death decisions in his twenties that affected countless lives in very real, high stakes ways.
Feeling unprepared and somewhat overwhelmed, he became obsessed with learning the keys to real world decision making that went beyond theory and actually reflected the best models and processes in real world practice.