How many times do you think you make a decision in a normal day? Ten times? Maybe a hundred times? Psychologists believe that the number of these decisions is much more than we think, something about a thousand times! But how much we have skill to making decisions? What things can have negative affect in our decision? Stay with us. In this article, we want to examine the answers to such questions.
Some of the decisions we make have an important and direct impact in our lives (such as deciding whether to go to college, get married, or have children) and some others which are less important (such as deciding what food to eat for lunch).
Some of these decisions have a positive effect on our lives (our study in university can give us good job in future) and some others do not (the food we chose for lunch was not a good choice and made problem for our health).
If we review the past and think about some of the bad decisions we have made, our mind will have challenge that why we made exactly that decision. Decisions that we can now clearly see and remember the negative bad effects.
There are factors that lead to wrong decisions and knowing these factors will affect our way of thinking. With this new mindset, we can increase Probability of making the right decision.
In the following, we will examine the three main factors that lead to wrong decisions.
1. Mental shortcuts that can trap us
If we were to think about all the possible scenarios that would come with our decision, the number of things we could do during the day could be very small. To make quick decisions, our brains resort to a number of cognitive shortcuts known as "Discovery".
Discovery or heuristic is a problem-solving method which we learn from past experiences to get practical solutions result to find our way. These mental rules rely more on experience and allow us to judge quickly and in most cases correctly. But using these mental rules can have bad effects and lead to confused thinking and bad decisions. Now the important question that arises is how can we minimize the negative effects of these Discovery or heuristic decisions? According to the advice of experts, to do this, we must increase our awareness and knowledge of the existence of such decisions.
2. The Role of Unworked Comparisons in Bad Decision
How do you know that to buying a tablet you paid right price? Or, for example, how can do you know the cost of buying a liter of milk was fair? Comparison is one of our main tools for making decision. The answer to these two questions also depend on to the comparison. In fact, we use comparisons of different items to evaluate them. But what will happened if our comparisons are bad? When make decision, we often make quick comparisons and come to a final decision without really thinking about the other options. If we do not want to make bad decisions, we must rely on the logic and look to other options ahead.
3. The effect of high optimism on bad decisions
It may seems a little strange, but people have an innate optimism that can impede good and wise decision. Part of our over-optimism is rooted in the inherent belief that We think death is for the neighbor and bad things happen only for others. When a person inform us that something unpleasant has happened to someone, We often look for mistakes that may have occurred to that person and because that happen to him. By blaming the victims of the accident, we are actually protecting ourselves from accepting the fact that we are like everyone else exposed to unpleasant events.The problem is that we are overconfident in our ability to set the stage for good things to happen.
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