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Research On How To Make Good Choices
Seems relatively important to make good choices, be that in a personal or professional context. Don’t think I need to belabor that point too much.
Most of our decisions and choices in a given day are ultimately habituated (and many are negative). Here’s the interesting thing from a work standpoint, OK? We have tons of research around the psychology of decision-making. Decision-making and choices are literally the cornerstone on which work rests. You go to an office, you make decisions, they have consequences, you leave, you come back, and you do the same thing the next day. Work is really just a series of decisions that are ultimately tied to results.
But over time, we came to separate these concepts into two silos. People who work are “hustling” or “entrepreneurial” and people who think about the psychology of decision and choice are “academic” or “ivory tower.” Never the twain shall meet. Now, in Silicon Valley and other places, you have people discussing mindfulness and brain hacking and best selves and all that — so here and there, the psychology of decision and choice is aligning with how we work.
But is that normative? No. Not yet. Probably never will be either. “Business guys” think of themselves as “I’m out here slaying dragons” because they have to…
