Decision Journal

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Is it possible to dramatically improve the process and outcomes of the decisions we make?
It is and I’ll show you how.
But first, let me tell you why I’m making such a bold claim.
Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking Fast and Slow and Nobel prize winning behavioral economist has provided the insights and tools to improve our decision making. With this research it has never been easier to make powerful and effective decisions. Never.
It doesn’t require a PhD, a Nobel prize or a high IQ. It fact it’s a simple matter when we recognise our limitations. Seeing them is the hard part. In fact, if you have yet to develop your decision making powers to the level you want, it likely has nothing to do with you. Given all the psychological causes of memory limitations, hindsight bias and misrepresentative evidence it is a wonder we’re still able to make any decisions, much less good ones.
If this is all sounding too complicated. Don't worry, we're about to make this crystal clear. In fact, we’ll look at exactly how we can dramatically improve the outcomes of our decisions.
But first, why is it so difficult to make good decisions?
Research has revealed that when we make decisions our brains are bombarded by a fleet of biases and irrationalities: We’re overconfident. We seek out information that supports us and downplay information that doesn’t. We get distracted by short-term emotions. When it comes to making choices, it seems, we’re walking uphill.
For decision makers the most troubling and insidious cause of irrationality is something called Hindsight Bias.
Which is the inclination, after an event has occurred, to see the event as having been predictable, despite there having been little or no objective basis for predicting it.
The surest protection against hindsight bias is disciplining ourselves to make explicit predictions and decisions, showing what we did in fact know.
This Decision Journal Application will enable you to do just this very thing. It provides a step by step guide to keeping a record of every important decision you make and enables you to archive:
The situation or context.
The variables that govern the situation.
The complications or complexity as you see it.
Alternatives that were seriously considered, and why they were not chosen.
The range of outcomes you deem possible, with probabilities.
The time of day you’re making the decision, and how you feel physically and mentally.
Voice recognition technology makes this process, simple and efficient and it’s all stored there for your review in the future.
Keeping a record on your decisions is empowering but can be humbling. This is how we learn.