The Most common decision making technique thought to us is:
Identify the situation/problem, gather information, identify alternatives, weigh the evidence, choose the action, get feedback & make the changes.
But this doesn’t teach us
How our emotions & feelings influence our decision making.
How our cognitive biases (automatic decision making formulas) influence our decision making.
How our physiology influences our decision making.
This course will help you identify the basic process of decision making.
How we think, leading to how we feel, leading to how our body reacts and leading to how we act.
Understand the many elements which influence our decision making process.
From stimuli to thoughts to emotions plus feelings to physiological changes in the body to we taking an action and the consequences.
The two types of thinking and decision making systems we all use.
System one (Fast, Unconscious, automatic, effortless & without self-awareness)
and System two (slow, deliberate, conscious, effortful & controlled mental process)
You will learn many tips & techniques on how to consciously shift from system one to system two. Like:
The 90 second rule
The 5 whys method
Recognizing cognitive bias
Using mental models
Using physiology &
Using creative visualization.
At the end of the course your decision making capability will substantially improve.
You will be able to take more conscious decisions.
No more emotional hijacks. (You end up taking a decision and then wonder why you did that!)
You would all agree the outcome of our life is dependent on the many decisions we take. Our decision to choose a particular formal education, our career path, company we join for work, person we decide to marry, our investments, our risks, our decisions while playing a particular sport...
But unfortunately neither in our schools or college we are formally thought the skill of decision making. We are left on our own to figure it out, by trial & error, as we stumble & steady ourselves in our life journey.
As I traversed through life many a time I have looked back with a remorse “why did I take that decision?”
I started to explore the science of decision making. The psychology & the neuroscience. What are the key factors involved in the decision making process?
Is our decision making purely driven by our instinct?
Have we any control over it?
Can we consciously change the way we think & decide and thereby the outcomes?
The discovery process was exciting.
It was like a street smart cricketer or soccer player, joining a coaching camp and discovering that there is scientific way to hold the bat and kick the ball! It doesn’t have to be trial & error.
And I am excited to share the same.
This course has been designed to give you a comprehensive view of the decision making system. Once you become conscious of the many factors involved in our decision making process the decisions you will make would be a conscious one and not instinctive.And as you keep practicing the tips & techniques taught you will become better and better.
