Book contents
- Reviews
- Give Yourself a Nudge
- Give Yourself a Nudge
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Nudge Yourself to Make Better Decisions
- 2 Your Decisions and Your Life
- 3 Making Value-Focused Decisions
- 4 Defining Your Decision
- 5 Identifying Your Values
- 6 Creating Alternatives
- 7 Identifying Decision Opportunities
- 8 Obtaining Authorization to Select Alternatives Controlled by Others
- 9 Becoming a Value-Focused Decision-Maker
- 10 Enhancing the Quality of Your Life
- 11 Useful Perspectives on Decision-Making
- Appendix Evaluating Alternatives and Making a Decision
- Notes
- Index
11 - Useful Perspectives on Decision-Making
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 April 2020
- Reviews
- Give Yourself a Nudge
- Give Yourself a Nudge
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Nudge Yourself to Make Better Decisions
- 2 Your Decisions and Your Life
- 3 Making Value-Focused Decisions
- 4 Defining Your Decision
- 5 Identifying Your Values
- 6 Creating Alternatives
- 7 Identifying Decision Opportunities
- 8 Obtaining Authorization to Select Alternatives Controlled by Others
- 9 Becoming a Value-Focused Decision-Maker
- 10 Enhancing the Quality of Your Life
- 11 Useful Perspectives on Decision-Making
- Appendix Evaluating Alternatives and Making a Decision
- Notes
- Index
Summary
This chapter provides some perspectives on decision-making and the role that it should play in your life to be most useful. Specific topics concern the misnomer of “objective decision-making, ” the inappropriateness of trying to optimize your decisions, the appropriate amount of time you should spend making decisions and how that time should be allocated, the importance of avoiding poor life-limiting decisions, the implications of your decisions on an untimely death, and how being spontaneous and enjoying your life fits in with your decision-making. There is also a summary of the types of personal nudges that you can create and use to guide you to make better decisions.
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- Give Yourself a NudgeHelping Smart People Make Smarter Personal and Business Decisions, pp. 213 - 229Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020