Decisions

Decision-making is one of the hardest things we do every day. Some decisions are acctually actually pretty easy. We don't think too much about what to dress wear each morning (in case that you are not unless you're a woman; that's a whole new other story), or what to order for lunch or which movie we should watch. But there are situations when where we have to decide about something important. For example which college or job we should pick, or in what city we should live. Than Then, we would love to know what is the best option is for us.

The first question is, if such does a best option or alternative does even exist? And what if there are two equally good alternatives?

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Second, for a thousand people there are a thousand different answers, so how do we evaluate the options? It's a totally subjective matter! So any advice here can be very tricky.

Of course there are some workarounds and methods how to solve this decision problems. Some of them are pretty sophisticated and are not possible to apply everywhere and in every situation. What I consider elegant is a method that Benjamin Franklin was using used:

He divided a pice of paper into two columns. One column named as labelled 'Pros' and second one the other named as labelled 'Cons'. Than in few upcomming Then, over a few days he filled these two columns out. He didn't do it in one session but in over several days, because he didn't want to be influenced by his actual current (actual means "real") mood or state of the mind. Then he rated each reason in both columns. If two reasons were rated equally he strike crossed them out. If one reason was rated as equal to the sum of other two other reasons, then he strikes crossed all three out. And so on, until he reached the final decision...