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3 Reasons You Make Terrible Decisions (and How to Stop)
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3 Reasons You Make Terrible Decisions (and How to Stop)

Decisions in life come down to trade-offs. And it just so happens we’re really bad at evaluating trade-offs.

Mark Manson
Mark Manson, 2020
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Every decision you make involves trade-offs between cost and benefit, risk and reward, effort and result. Mark Manson identifies three factors that inevitably interfere with wise decision-making – responses that evolution baked into your brain. He outlines options for becoming more self-aware so you can defeat your cognitive glitches. Learn how to make easy, poor choices less appealing and how to make hard but worthy decisions easier. You can ensure that your values inform your choices and thus take responsibility for the shape of your life.

Take-Aways

  • Every decision involves weighing costs and benefits – and people are pretty lousy at making those evaluations.
  • Bad decisions are the result of emotional derailment, the unrecognized effects of the passage of time and the outsized influence of social status.
  • To make better decisions, learn to dial down the role of emotion in your choices.

About the Author

Blogger Mark Manson is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck and Everything is F*cked: A Book About Hope. 

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