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Index
About This eBook
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Contents
About the Author
Preface
Part I: Introduction
1. Decision Making Shapes Your Life
Decision Tips
2. The Search for Rationality
Decision Tips
3. Why It’s Hard to Be Rational
Decision Tips
Part II: How Do You Make Decisions?
4. What’s Your Decision Style?
How to Score
What Does Your Score Mean?
Understanding Decision-Making Style
5. Are You a Risk-Taker?
How to Score
What Does Your Score Mean?
Understanding Risk Taking
6. Are You a Maximizer or Satisficer?
How to Score
What Does Your Score Mean?
Understanding Maximizing and Satisficing
7. Who Controls Your Destiny?
How to Score
What Does Your Score Mean?
Understanding Locus of Control
8. Do You Procrastinate?
How to Score
What Does Your Score Mean?
Understanding Procrastination
9. Are You Impulsive?
How to Score
What Does Your Score Mean?
Understanding Impulsiveness
10. Can You Control Your Emotions?
How to Score
What Does Your Score Mean?
Understanding Emotions
11. Are You Overconfident?
How to Score
What Does Your Score Mean?
Understanding Overconfidence
12. Understanding Your Personality Profile
Decision Tips
Part III: Common Biases and Errors That Most of Us Make (and How to Overcome Them)
13. How Can You Be So Darn Sure About That? Coping with Overconfidence
Decision Tips
14. Never Do Today That Which You Can Do Tomorrow: The Inertia Bias
Decision Tips
15. I Want It, and I Want It NOW! The Immediate Gratification Bias
Decision Tips
16. Where You End Up Depends on Where You Start: The Anchoring Effect
Decision Tips
17. I’ll See It When I Believe It: The Selective Perception Bias
Decision Tips
18. I Hear What I Want to Hear: The Confirmation Bias
Decision Tips
19. Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full? The Framing Bias
Decision Tips
20. What Have You Done for Me Lately? The Availability Bias
Decision Tips
21. Looks Can Be Deceiving: The Representation Bias
Decision Tips
22. Seeing Patterns That Aren’t There: Coping with Randomness
Decision Tips
23. I Only Like Change That Jingles in My Pocket: The Familiarity Bias
Decision Tips
24. Gone Is Not Always Forgotten: Understanding Sunk Costs
Decision Tips
25. Keep It Simple: The Limited Search Error
Decision Tips
26. Losing Your Head in the Heat of Battle: The Emotional Involvement Error
Decision Tips
27. Who You Gonna Blame? The Self-Serving Bias
Decision Tips
28. Novelty Wears Off: The Adaptation Bias
Decision Tips
29. I Knew It All the Time: The Hindsight Bias
Decision Tips
Part IV: Advice Your Mother Never Gave You
30. Clear Goals and Preferences Make Choosing a Lot Easier
Decision Tips
31. Sometimes Doing Nothing Is Your Best Option
Decision Tips
32. Choosing Not to Decide Is Still a Decision
Decision Tips
33. Decisions Are Not Made in Isolation
Decision Tips
34. All Decisions Aren’t Important
Decision Tips
35. More Information Isn’t Necessarily Better
Decision Tips
36. You Can Have Too Much of a Good Thing
Decision Tips
37. Don’t Rehash Past Decisions
Decision Tips
38. Successful People Take Risks
Decision Tips
39. It’s Okay to Make Mistakes, or No One Has an Undefeated Season
Decision Tips
40. Experience Can Improve Decisions, But...
Decision Tips
41. Where You’re from Influences How You Decide
Decision Tips
Part V: An Epilogue
42. Summary, or Why Ignorance Isn’t Bliss
Endnotes
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Index
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