Decision-Making
Focusing on What Truly Matters to You Through Authentic Decision-Making
Authentic decision-making — deciding from who you genuinely are rather than from external scripts — is the pr…
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Helpful articles about self-awareness, relationships, work style, emotional patterns, communication, and personal growth.
Decision-Making
The Path to Authentic Living Through Value-Based Personal Choices
Authentic living is not a state you achieve once but a path you walk through a continuous series of value-bas…
Decision-Making
How to Stop Compromising and Make Choices True to Yourself
There is a particular kind of self-betrayal that hides inside the respectable word "compromise." Some comprom…
Decision-Making
Step 2 to Better Decisions: Recognizing Your Cognitive Biases
If the first step toward better decisions is grounding them in your genuine values, the second step is recogn…
Decision-Making
Why Knowing Your Cognitive Biases is Crucial for Better Decision-Making
It is one thing to recognise cognitive biases when prompted; it is another to understand why knowing them is…
Decision-Making
The Second Rule of Smart Decision-Making: Check Your Personal Biases
Knowing that cognitive biases exist and that they are crucial to account for is necessary but incomplete.
Decision-Making
The Blueprint for Better Choices: How to Create Your Own Values Hierarchy
Knowing that a values hierarchy improves your decisions is one thing; actually constructing a reliable one is…
Decision-Making
How to Build a Values Hierarchy That Actually Works for Your Life
Plenty of values hierarchies look impressive on paper and fail completely in practice. The gap between a hier…
Decision-Making
What Happens When the Core Value of "Adventure" Tops Your List
Placing adventure at the top of your values hierarchy is a consequential choice with sweeping implications fo…
Decision-Making
Case Study: How to Make Decisions When "Adventure" is Your Main Priority
Abstract principles about valuing adventure become genuinely useful only when you watch them applied to a con…
Decision-Making
How Your Core Values Like Adventure Shape Your Real World Choices
It is easy to treat core values as abstractions that float somewhere above the practical business of living.
Decision-Making
How to Decide Between Taking a Safe Job or a Risky Adventure of a Lifetime
The choice between a safe, secure job and a risky once-in-a-lifetime adventure is one of the most agonising d…