Decision Making

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01

Jordan B. Peterson · 2021

Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life

Do not confuse order with life. Keep enough structure to stand, then choose the burden that asks you to grow.

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 2012

Antifragile

Fragility hides in systems that need the world to stay gentle; strength begins when disorder starts paying rent.

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Eric Barker · 2017

Barking Up the Wrong Tree

The right tree is the place where your odd branch gets sunlight.

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Malcolm Gladwell · 2005

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

A first impression is useful when it becomes a question before it becomes a verdict.

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Shane Parrish · 2023

Clear Thinking

Clear thinking is not a personality trait. It is an environment you build before pressure starts making decisions for you.

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Chip Heath, Dan Heath · 2013

Decisive

A better decision is rarely the loudest option. It is the one that survives alternatives, evidence, distance, and a plan for being wrong.

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Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Ronnlund · 2018

Factfulness

The goal is not to feel hopeful. It is to become harder to fool.

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Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein · 2008

Nudge

A good nudge does not win by force. It wins by arranging the path so your better intention is the easiest one to keep.

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Adam M. Grant · 2021

Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

The mark of intelligence is not defending a belief forever. It is knowing when the belief has stopped earning its place.

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Chip Heath, Dan Heath · 2010

Switch

For anything to change, someone has to start acting differently.

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Rolf Dobelli · 2011

The Art of Thinking Clearly

Clear thinking is not the absence of bias. It is the habit of catching your favorite mistake before it spends your future.

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Atul Gawande · 2009

The Checklist Manifesto

The checklist is not about making experts less expert. It is about making expertise reliable when the room gets loud.

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Seth Godin · 2007

The Dip

Quit the wrong things early so you have the strength to push through the right dip.

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Robert Greene · 2018

The Laws of Human Nature

Mastery of human nature begins the moment you stop exempting yourself from it.

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Ryan Holiday · 2019

Stillness Is the Key

Stillness is not the absence of movement; it is the presence of command.

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Scott Adams · 2013

How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big

A goal can disappoint you once. A system can keep paying you while you learn.

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Logan Ury · 2021

How to Not Die Alone

Love is not found by perfect filtering; it is built by better noticing, choosing, and repairing.

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Charles Duhigg · 2016

Smarter Faster Better

Productivity is not doing more things; it is choosing the mental model that makes the right things move.

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Daniel Todd Gilbert · 2006

Stumbling on Happiness

Future-you is a stranger; ask better questions before promising them paradise.

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Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths · 2016

Algorithms to Live By

A good algorithm does not make life mechanical. It gives judgment a sharper edge and anxiety a smaller job.

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Daniel H. Pink · 2022

The Power of Regret

Regret is not a command to live in the past. It is a dispatch from the past asking you to live more deliberately now.

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Daniel H. Pink · 2018

When

Timing is not the art of squeezing more into the day. It is the art of giving the right moment the right job.

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Matt Haig · 2020

The Midnight Library

You do not need a perfect alternate life before you are allowed to inhabit this one.

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Malcolm Gladwell · 2013

David and Goliath

The point is not that weakness is secretly easy. It is that the giant's strength often creates a blind spot.

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John C. Maxwell · 2009

How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

Better thinking is not luck. It is a scheduled discipline.

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Michael Schur · 2022

How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

Perfection is not the assignment. Trying to be a little better is.

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Darius Foroux · 2017

Think Straight: Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life

A clear mind is edited, not empty.

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Annie Duke · 2018

Thinking in Bets

A good decision is a bet made honestly before the result is known.

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Jennifer Shahade

Thinking Sideways: How to Think Like a Chess Player and Win at Life

The point is not to predict every move. It is to see the board from a square your fear forgot to check.

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David McRaney · 2011

You Are Not So Smart

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