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Decision Making

Decision Survey

Record your mindset after making big decisions so that you can later review your thought process and learn from it once you have results.

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Useful When

  • You want to learn from past decisions to make better ones in the future
  • You want to create a personal library of decisions and outcomes for future reference

About

This framework, created by Shaan Puri, involves documenting your thought process after making a decision. Its purpose is not to aid in decision-making, but to enable you to come back and review your thought process and train the most important muscle: judgment.

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Multiply Your Time Focus on doing the things today that will give you more time in the future. Think about the urgency, importance, and significance of your decisions. Inversion Look at a problem or decision from the opposite point of view. Rather than focusing on achieving success, consider how to avoid failure. ICE Scoring Make short-term decisions by thinking about the impact, confidence, and easiness of your decisions. Plan and prioritize on the timescale of weeks or months.

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