Contents:
- Medical Video: How to take a Tough Decision in Tough Situation Decision Making Skills by Vivek Bindra
- Tips for making the right decision
- 1. Make a decision while being focused and not in a hurry
- 2. Gather as much facts as possible
- 3. Stay open to all possibilities
- 4. Make the positive and negative impacts that will be received
- 5. Try changing your view to being someone else
Medical Video: How to take a Tough Decision in Tough Situation Decision Making Skills by Vivek Bindra
Making decisions especially for big things is not an easy matter. Especially if the decisions you make later will affect the people. So, how do you make the right decision to minimize the adverse effects that might arise? Come follow the following tips.
Tips for making the right decision
So that the decisions you make are more stable, here are some tips that you need to follow, namely:
1. Make a decision while being focused and not in a hurry
Never decide something when you are in a frantic condition with a split mind. No matter how bad the conditions are and as narrow as any time you should try to focus for a moment.
Dr. Jeremy Nicholson, social psychologist and personality and assistant lecturer at Behavioral Economics Department, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, stated that the best time to make big and important decisions is when you are relaxed, focused, and energized.
This is because complex thinking requires attention, motivation, and also a good ability to control oneself. Now when you are frantic and lots of thoughts, the mind has difficulty focusing because the body is tired.
For that, it's good to make a decision in the morning when you are just about to start activities. That way, you can consider the good and bad sides of decisions that will be made in focus without a divided mind. Never make decisions in a hurry because you will not be able to think clearly.
2. Gather as much facts as possible
You cannot make decisions just because you rely on information from one party. Even though you have a lot of time and are in focus, if the information you have as a basis before making a decision is only a little, it's useless.
Especially if you find that the information you have is only limited to individual opinion without the support of much stronger facts. For that, before you decide something, it's good to collect all the facts and information relating to the decisions you make.
Relying on the completeness of information that can be ascertained the truth will help you reduce uncertainty in a choice. That way you can make the best choice from the good.
3. Stay open to all possibilities
When the data starts to accumulate, you can start mapping it according to the problems that exist. In this process, various facts start from the expected ones until you don't expect them to appear before your eyes. When facing this, always remember and think about the impact of what will happen next.
Don't turn a blind eye to the facts you find. Instead, you need to be open to all possibilities, including those you don't like. Because, often people immediately conclude the argument in accordance with what he wants, not from the facts found.
By staying open to all the possibilities, you will avoid decisions that will only have a "pleasant" effect for a while but it turns out to have a long-term bad effect.
4. Make the positive and negative impacts that will be received
A decision will surely have an impact, both positive and negative. If you are confused which one will be chosen among the choices that you think is good, try doing this. Write a list of the positive and negative things that you will receive in each choice of decision that will be taken on a piece of paper.
Now try to compare, about which one brings the most benefits but has minimal risk between the choice decisions. If you have found it, then you can eliminate other options, especially those with minimal profits, but the risks are high.
5. Try changing your view to being someone else
When the decision you are about to make has increasingly led to one thing, then what needs to be done is to evaluate it again. Check again whether this decision has answered the problem you are facing.
Research in the journal Psychological Science found the fact that when you can position yourself as someone else, the tendency of people to make unwise choices will decrease.
