What Dying Taught Me About Decision Making
My tank blew up. I died. It was pretty ugly.
Stop freaking out Mom. I’m alive. This isn’t some creepy posthumous blog post or something.
In the process of dying, I learned a great deal about decision making. I learned the value in making decisions quickly and how even bad decisions can be good decisions in the end. While dying wasn’t very much fun, the insights it provided me have been valuable ever since I died.
Now, I’m not asking you to die to learn lessons about decision making. I am, however, asking you to read the story of my death and learn about a new way to look at decisions. I want to share some thoughts with you on how you can learn the value of bad decisions and the potential cost of not making a decision at all.
I recently wrote a post on dying and decision making. The post is an excerpt from One Piece of Paper: The Simple Approach to Powerful, Personal Leadership. The excerpt is posted in its entirety on SmartBlog on Leadership. You can read the full post by CLICKING HERE. I hope you enjoy it.
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The article on Smart Brief seems to be polarizing. I am interested to hear your thoughts on why you think that is?
I think it’s because folks read things too literally and can’t take guidance in one scenario and understand how the principle applies in other situations. When people get that myopic, they stop thinking straight and say stupid stuff. The polarization appears to be between the people with brains who can make this logical leap and those who take things way too literally (infer what you like with respect to their possession of a brain).