Problem Solver
eBook - ePub

Problem Solver

Maximizing Your Strengths to Make Better Decisions

  1. 180 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Problem Solver

Maximizing Your Strengths to Make Better Decisions

About this book

Winner of the Independent Press Award in Psychology

Our decisions are expressions of who we are and how we move through the world. Rarely, though, do we examine our decisions or even look inward to consider the psychology of our decision-making. Instead, we often make decisions based on what we call instinct (which relies on cognitive bias), false assumptions, mis-remembering, and mental mistakes. Truthfully, we don't see the world as it is; we see it as we are.

We can develop self-knowledge about our decision-making styles. We can wake ourselves up to how biases cloud our judgment and impede good decision-making—and we can counter bias. From there, we can transform our decision-making habits to make better big decisions alone and together. Problem Solver provides you with tools to identify:
• The five basic decision-making approaches, or "Problem Solver Profiles" (PSPs): Adventurer, Detective, Listener, Thinker, and Visionary
• Your dominant—and secondary—PSPs
• Tools to assess other peoples' PSPs
• Each PSP's decision-making strengths, blind spots, and biases
• How your PSP impacts your outlook on life and your risk appetite
• How to use your PSP to maximize your decision strengths

Replete with real-life examples and replicable strategies to apply new decision-making skills for your immediate benefit, Problem Solver will do more than help you look out into a future; it will equip you to move forward, with confidence, into your future.

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Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgments
  2. Introduction: The Data of Living
  3. 1. How Do You Decide?
  4. 2. Lexicon, Situationality, and Community
  5. 3. The Adventurer
  6. 4. The Detective
  7. 5. The Listener
  8. 6. The Thinker
  9. 7. The Visionary
  10. 8. Hunt Like the Cheetah
  11. 9. PSPs and Risk Profiles
  12. 10. PSPs and Cognitive Biases
  13. 11. Ambiguity versus Uncertainty
  14. 12. Using PSPs to Bolster Strengths
  15. 13. How PSPs Color Our Relationship with Data
  16. 14. Situationality and Dynamic Decision-Making
  17. 15. The Relationship between PSPs and Life Outlook
  18. Glossary
  19. Notes
  20. Cast of Problem Solvers (in Order of Appearance)
  21. Index