How to make decisions fast

[00:00:00] In this week we have an interesting question how to make decisions fast, so I think I'll pose it this way. Two ways to make decisions fast on the Thinking Effect. Thank you so much as a Thinking Effect. I'm your host, Tommy Danger.

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[00:00:31] And I thank you for coming through in rocking out with the kid. So how to make decisions fast or two ways to make decisions fast? Speaking from my experience, I would never worry about if I were called into The Boss' Office to have a discussion about work.

[00:00:52] Like I never worried in a simple way of putting it, I never worried about going to the principal's office. And it boiled down to two reasons, right? And this is the two ways that you can make decisions.

[00:01:10] For one, if you know that you're doing what your supposed to do, the reason that you're being called shouldn't bother you, because essentially you know that you're doing what your supposed to do. You can't change the way that a person may respond to it,

[00:01:31] but you can change the way that you react to it. So to counter that, if you're in a midst of an environment where everything is moving very rapidly, and you're faced with a coworker or one of your straight line employees coming to you with a situation.

[00:01:51] They're like, look, here's what happened. Everything's full in the part, we need to figure out something. You know, the first thing that comes in mind is how confident are you in making a decision? Or how confident are you in the choice of your decision?

[00:02:11] Most of the time, the choices of our decisions are based on mostly, you know, one or two things. One being experience. So if you have experience in that field, when that situation,

[00:02:25] you can sort of play out in your mind quickly, what's the worst case scenario that will happen? And if that were to happen, how would you feel about dealing with that situation? Let me say that one more time. So you face with making a decision quickly.

[00:02:42] One way to look at it is what is the worst case or what is the worst in result that could come from that decision? And are you willing to stand behind the decision that you're making?

[00:02:56] So right and wrong and different in my career, I would make decisions very, very quickly, and then be ready for the smoke. And when I say ready for the smoke, I'm not saying it. Looking for trouble is just, it's my decision and I stand by it.

[00:03:16] I made or you can make the best decision in that moment and you stand by it. Then does that mean that always you're going to make the best decision? No, a lot of the situations are just be learning experiences.

[00:03:30] So if you make a bunch of mistakes, now you have like a whole catalog of in results that you know that may not be favorable. So now you can go back and go like, ah, well that's how I made that decision that happened this happened.

[00:03:45] And some of you get freaked out, well, that's a whole lot to think about how I'm going to think about all that. Trust me, your brain can handle way more complex things than what you give it credit for.

[00:03:59] You know, you could you could solve complex math problems with your mind in a matter of seconds if you really wanted to. So making these decisions are just as easy within your reach, okay? And that still falls in confidence.

[00:04:15] You have to be confident in a decision that you're making and be willing to speak up and stand by the decisions that you make in a moment. The second way is we're most of you get stumbled is you overthink it.

[00:04:28] You're trying to think of every possible solution of what you can do, what might go wrong, what might not go wrong. In that case, you know, as one of my mentors have taught me that's when you face with decision fatigue.

[00:04:45] So you have too many options, so now you're not really sure which option to take. And if you have, you know, direct reports, here's a way that you can flip it.

[00:04:58] So let's say you come with or your face with making a decision quickly and you know, a lot of times we like to get in the hotels or a group chat or zones, whatever, you know, means of gathering.

[00:05:10] Happens when you when you face with these challenges and when a challenge is positioned to you.

[00:05:15] And if you're the type of person to a you struggle with making that decision, throw it back to the person that has posed the challenge to you and say what would you do? And if that person in your opinion is knowledgeable about the situation.

[00:05:32] Now instead of you being left with this blank slate of trying to figure out all these different options,

[00:05:38] you could merely narrow it down to two because now you have your decision and that person's decision, which narrows it down to two as opposed to you trying to merely think of everything yourself.

[00:05:51] So now you can go well, you know, that makes sense or that doesn't make sense. Here's why we're going to go with this or here's why we're going to go with that.

[00:06:04] And all of this can literally happen within minutes if not seconds to where you have to get those decisions out quickly. And when all those fails go with your gut, this is the thinking effect where we help you do your daily best.