Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work by Chip & Dan Heath

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– The Four Villains of Decision Making.
1: Narrow Framing
2: Confirmation Bias
3: Short Term Emotion
4: Over confidence

– Four ways to make better decisions, WRAP it. The four strategies described in Decisive can be easily recalled using the mnemonic device, “WRAP”.
Widen your options when framing the problem
Reality check your assumptions to avoid confirmation bias
Attain distance from your emotions to see more clearly
Prepare to be wrong, because the future is uncertain

Other notes:
-Ooch/ooching – small experiments
-10 10 10 – how would you feel 10mins months and years from now.
-instead of future possibilities, imagine you are in the future and achieved what you wanted. So instead of how will I get there, go to future and ask what happened and what did I do to get here.

Contents
– Introduction
1. The Four Villains of Decision Making

WIDEN YOUR OPTIONS
2. Avoid a Narrow Frame
3. Multritrack
4. Find Someone Who’s Solved Your Problem

REALITY-TEST YOUR ASSUMPTIONS
5. Consider the Opposite
6. Zoom Out, Zoom In
7. Ooch

ATTAIN DISTANCE BEFORE DECIDING
8. Overcome Short-Term Emotion
9. Honour Your Core Priorities

PREPARE TO BE WRONG
10. Bookend the Future
11. Set a Tripwire
12. Trusting the Process
– Next Steps
– Recommendations for Further Reading
– Endnotes
– Acknowledgements
– Index