Author: Donald Latumahina / Source: Life Optimizer
In reaching your full potential, your decision-making ability plays an important role. After all, your life is just the outcome of your decisions. So the better you are at making decisions, the better your life will be.
Good decision-making has two characteristics:
- Effective: you make the right decision for your situation. You choose the right action to do.
- Efficient: you make the decision fast. It doesn’t take you too much time to make the decision.
If you can make the right decisions, and make them fast, then you have a good decision-making ability.
But how can we achieve that? How can we be effective and efficient in decision-making?
The key, I believe, is having good mental models. A mental model is a framework about how something in the world works. When you have a mental model about learning, for instance, you have a framework about how learning works. You have an idea about what the components are and how they interact with each other.
Having good mental models allows you to make the right decisions fast.
Why is that the case? Here are two reasons:
- You can predict what would happen, so you know what right action to take is.
- You already have a framework, so you just need to give some input to get the output. Everything in…
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