Wise Decision Maker Guide 8

Greetings Decision maker,

In the last few WDMG emails, I’ve focused on specific techniques to defeat the dangerous judgment errors that cognitive neuroscientists like myself call cognitive biases to avoid career and business disasters and make the wisest and most profitable decisions. They’re great when you have time to use them and recognize their necessity.

However, you - as well as those whose decisions you care about - also need to develop a set of mental skills to develop mastery in defeating mental blindspots.

These abilities will enable you to:
Predict when you or someone else might fall for cognitive biases and prevent that from happening
Recognize immediately when dangerous judgment errors are undermining the situation at hand, even if you didn’t predicted it in advance
Take effective steps in the moment to protect yourself or others from cognitive biases, even when you don’t have time to use any structured decision-making processes
Teach others how to protect themselves from mental blindspots

Let me be honest (no need to assume the worst, it’s not like I’m dishonest at other times, it’s just that I’m using this phrase to prepare you for bad news, ok?). These skills sound - and are - simple, but developing the mental habits to use these skills in the moment is tough, as it involves changing your basic intuitions.

Remember when you learned to drive a car? Maybe this ages me, but my first car did not have anti-lock brakes. I had to learn to avoid slamming on the brakes when skidding on ice/snow/water and instead pump the brakes. It’s very counterintuitive and hard to do, just as it’s counterintuitive to do exercises and avoid eating that third chocolate cookie.

Rewiring our habitual instincts is hard, and I mean hard. We have to really want to do it, investing strong emotions into this transformation because we really dislike the current situation of being vulnerable to decision disasters and instead are fully committed to becoming truly wise decision makers. I hope you join me in this commitment to outstanding mental fitness.

Here’s a visual summary of the key 12 mental skills to defeating cognitive biases:

Using and Setting Reminders for the 12 Mental Skills

Developing these skills is hard and requires constant reminders, until each becomes a new set of habits. So you need to decide how you will remind yourself to develop these new habits. To help my consulting and coaching clients, I developed a decision aid in the form of a poster they can download and print out for themselves, as well as their teams and organizations.

That’s one tool you can use. However, you may find something else to be more effective for your needs. Decide what works best and make sure that you implement it. Choose and take specific steps within the next week to remind yourself to develop these habits.

What’s Up With Me

I recently returned from an 11-day, 3-city book tour on my just-published book, Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters. I’m pretty exhausted and am still recovering.

Do you think the organization where you work might benefit from a talk on the book? What about an association to which you belong? Check out my speaking experience and potential book-based programs and let me know.

Do you know anyone who has an established podcast or blog who'd like to introduce their listeners to a just-published book based on cutting edge research? I’d be happy to give an interview or write a guest blog. With over 400 articles and 350 interviews, I have extensive media experience.

One of the biggest traps business leaders fall into is when they believe they are right when in fact they are very wrong. Why? Because of their blissful unawareness of how cognitive biases keep steering them down dangerous paths. Gleb Tsipursky has written the perfect book to fight back. No one reading this engaging and practical book can walk away believing they are immune to bias; anyone reading this book will now be armed with practical techniques to stop making the same mistakes over and over again.

Next Time in the Wise Decision Maker Guide

Next time in the Wise Decision Maker Guide - which usually hits your inbox every first and third Tuesday, so December 3 for the next one - you’ll learn about how to avoid unexpected cost overruns and delays.

Help Me Serve Your Needs

Which of these 12 mental skills do you think will be easiest for you to improve? Which one will be the hardest? How can developing these 12 mental skills benefit those in your organization? What next steps can you take to bring these skills into your team?

As always, what you share helps me further refine the resources I create to help you avoid decision disasters and achieve your dreams, hopes, and desires.

Look forward to your thoughts about how you can use these 12 mental skills and make them into true habits!

P.S. Got your copy of Never Go With Your Gut? Don’t forget the digital bonuses you get for ordering! Just fill out this form, and you will get 1) free digital copy of my Assessment on Dangerous Judgment Errors in the Workplace; 2) A decision aid business card of 5 Key Questions to Avoid Decisions Disasters that you can get printed and keep in your wallet, on your desk, and give to members of your team; and 3) Two decision aid posters for you to print out for your work or home office and for your team to print out: one for 5 Key Questions to Avoid Decisions Disasters and one for the Eight-Step Decision-Making Model on Making the Best Decisions

P.P.S. Registration is still open to join me for a deep dive into Never Go With Your Gut.

Decisively Yours,

Gleb

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